Currently in Vientienne, the capital of Loas. We've had two nights here so far just trying to fill in time until we go to Vietnam to meet two friends from University. We travelled up from Vang Vieng with two girls we met the week before when we were tubing. The journey was only about 4 and a half hours and went really quickly. We walked around for ages trying to find somewhere cheap to stay, food and accomodation is so much more than the other places we've been t...

After our wait on the border of thai/laos we got a 14 hour bus to Luang Prabang. We were lucky to wait for the 5 o'clock bus instead of taking the local bus at 11 in the morning as we spoke to two Aussies who told us they took the local bus and ended up being confronted by pirates and the driver was made to pay!! We arrived safely in Luang Prabang (North Laos) at 5.30a.m, we were expecting to arrive later so we hadnt pre booked a hostel. We met 6 other travellers...

Yesterday Beth and I left Pai in Thailand to travel across to Luang Prabang in Laos. We left at 2 in the afternoon and got a 3 hour windy bus jouney back down to Chiang Mai. From there we got onto another minivan for 5 hours which then dropped us off at a very smelly hostel for the night!! This morning we were up at 7 to make it in time to cross the Thailand Laos border, where we payed $35 for our visa. We now have to wait until 5 this eveing to get onto our slee...

After a sad good bye at Manchester airport Beth and I arrived in Bangkok early on the 6th September! We managed to get a taxi to take us to Rambrutti (Khao San Road) where we had our first nights accomodation booked. We only spent two days in Bangkok and did the typical touristy sight seeing, only we managed to get scammed by a 'friendly' local who told us that the Grand Palace was closed at Lunch time so we should go and see some other temples...we went along wi...