Finally updating my blog! Left Vang Vieng after my originally planned 2 night stay quickly turned into a 4 nighter! We went and did the famous Mekong river tubing, where you hire an enormous inner tire tube and go by tuk tuk 3 km up river and basically spend a lazy 3hours floating back down to the town. Only catch being that the beginning of the river is lined with bars all throwing you ropes to drag you into their bar for very weird free drinks or goodies....

On Thursday I crossed over the Thai-Laos friendship bridge with Anouj a fellow volunteer from isara. We got our Laos visa really easily and grabbed a bus to vientaine, the Laos capital. Although we arrived and found out that the last bus to vang vieng was leaving at 2pm so we only had a couple of hours there. I found an amazing shop selling hand made Hmong people handicrafts, later turned out the shop was mentioned in my guidebook. We found a place to have Chines...