What a pair of cop outs we are! After months of painful bus journeys we decided to treat ourselves (something we seem to be doing far too often at the moment!) to a flight from Vientiane in Laos to Hanoi, Vietnam. We'd heard a fair few horror stories about the overland border crossing mainly involving corrupt policemen charging you for your visa when you've already applied or the 15 hour journey taking upto 30 hours. With time and money being the two things we're...

I can't actually believe how far behind I'm falling with this blog! I apologise for the lack of updates but the sun just keeps on calling my name! Just so you know, we're actually in Vietnam in the moment, due to leave for Cambodia on Sunday morning, but in blog world we're still in Laos, lovely, lovely Laos! (I'm actually now in Cambodia!!! It's impossible to find internet cafe's here and so I'm having to write this blog in pieces!) Time seems to be flying. Whe...

As we had decided not to take the slow boat we thought it might make a nice change to travel down river by long tail boat from Muang Gnoi to Luang Prabang. Our favourite happy travellers the germans, were waiting at the boat station when we arrived. I can't explain why Dan and I found them so entertaining. They were comedy geniuses without even realising it. Two hours before their boat was due to leave the german chap was sitting with his bags on the front of t...

Unarguably Laos is one of the most beautiful countries I have had the opportunity to visit. After having spent just one week here I am already head over heels with the country and feel certain it's going to be my favourite in south east Asia. In comparison to Malaysia and Thailand the journeys from town to town are quite enjoyable. Yes, they're always 5/6 hours longer than stated and yes you spent half your time reaching for the sick bag because the roads are a...

Welcome to Laos. What a journey we had to get here. It felt as though we were never going to arrive. The first mistake we made was in thinking that the 272 hair pin bend road must be much less hairy on the way down. How wrong we were! Our driver was an absolute maniac and drove at 100mph down the mountain in the dark of the night. It was terrifying! The wheels were spinning and with each turn it looked like we were going to fly right off the edge until he would ...