So i said i was getting on that bus to Don Det...yeah that didnt happen.... i went to the cash machine an hour before the bus was due to pick up and couldnt find my card,- i now needed money for a bed tonight and food, i go to use my english back up card and its blocked!! more annoyingly i stupidly spent the magority of my cash on that god damn guitar i coudnt even play. i was going to have to 'busk' for my survival!haha idiot!

the hostel let me stay that night without payment up front ..phew! i wasin this depressing hostal in a dorm on my own that night and had rats in the ceiling scurrying around! that night was the worst.no money and living in that. i got invted out by someone who turned up to share the dorm and i said yes to cheer me up...turns out that night was awfully weird and very strange so i left when i could and had to run back in the early hours of the morning on my own to go home.

Middle of the night and i am awoken by a strange man shaking my arm....telling me the football results... so weird!! leave me alone, safe to say i watched him like a hawk until he had fallen asleep in his bed. i did not feel safe at all in this place, mreso without any money.

Next morning and local guy takes me on his motorbike to the bank. i finally got my card! phew!

later that day i went to the cash machine to pay back hostal and get bus ticket to Don Det paid for and met a strange local acting suspicious, The atm gave me three times the amount i thought i had asked for.. o i clocked what couldbe/ is about to happen....and basically this guy went to mug me and the adrenaline was crazy, lots of running, shouting, cars and fist clenching but i got away with the help of 2 westeners . never have i been so grateful to such strangersin my life. i was terrified.

Finally i got on the bus and was glad to have left safe and sound! ...i did unfortunatly get placed in a bed next to the girl who i thought may have stolen my 40 pounds though! when was this bad luck going to run out!!!

I dont think i have one photo of my time in vientiane. everyone used it as a stop of place, everyone disliked it and it just so happened i was the one who was being forced to stay , thanks to all these awful things. never been so releived to get out of a place. good bye Capital City.