So after a bumpy and windy 6 hour bus journey we finally arrived in Vang Vien, we found a cheap hostel and decided to go and explore as we did not know too much about the place. The place was essentially the backpackers capital of the world. Everything was aimed at backpackers and if the town lost this there would be nothing there apart from some pretty impressive views, like the one shown in the photo atatched. We had decided to stay here in Vang Vieng for three...

Good Morning All, We are currently in Vientiene killing time before we get a 24 hour bus to Hanoi in Vietnam, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to tell you about our time in Laos. So after a 2 day slow boat we eventually reached our destination in Luang Prabang, a name I still forget and miss pronounce and call anything apart from it's correct name. Our first job was to find our hostel, which we had previously booked in Chaing Khong. Haloas Backpack...

So the next day we headed down to the dock early on the back of a pick up truck, about 10 of us all with massive ruck sacks, and Earl with his suitcase, it was quite a 15 minute drive. We crossed the border and got our visa sorted and then go took by tuk tuk to the slow boat dock, this is where we met a dutch guy called Nick who was also on our bus to Chaing Khong and two German girls called Isa and Helena. We spent the next six hours on a boat travelling to Pa...

After our night out in Chaing Rai, we had a pretty decent lie in next day as our only plan was to get the 2-3 hour bus too Chaing Khong, where we would stop a night before getting a slow boat to Loas. We arrived in Chaing Khong about 3, the place only had really one main street, which didnt have much, but our hostel was brilliant and overlooked the river. We had a really good view, we were told we could go and swim in the river so we headed down pretty much stra...

Good Afternoon everyone Sorry it's been a while, in short I have been on a boat for the past few days and struggled with internet access so a nice little treat for you today will be 3 blogs, one for Chaing Rai, one for Chaing Khong and the other for the slow boat from Chiang Khong to Luang Prabang. So I will start off with Chaing Rai, we arrived here after a very draining 4-5 hour bus journey from Chaing Mai. We were also greeted with the only rain we have seen...