A 5 hour bus journey to Luang Prabang meant one thing for the Irish guys....Valium. They were lucky enough to miss the two landslides in the way that we had to sit and wait for to be cleared. Everybody raves about this UNESCO World Heritage Site, explaining you will just want to stay as it is so chilled out. And with bars like Utopia we are starting to realise why. It is hard to find a seat with a vertical back. So we spent the afternoon lazing overlooking th...

So no one told you life was gonna be this wayYour job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.It's like you're always stuck in second gearWhen it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year, butI'll be there for you(When the rain starts to pour)I'll be there for you(Like I've been there before)I'll be there for you('Cause you're there for me too)You're still in bed at ten and work began at eightYou've burned your breakfast, so far things...

A failed trip to the lagoon close by, meant one thing. When in Vang Vieng do what the Vang Viengians do....TUBING. We have found this to be our favourite line at the moment - When in Vang Vieng. Instantly the vibe wasn't the same, we had to make new friends and the bars were different as they change every 3 days due to them having a close in 2012. On arrival at bar 4, we were told to just carry on as there was nobody there. So with 4 others we had met we ...

Today we do not love Vang Vieng. M & C xxxx

With a day of tubing planned with everyone last night, we presumed everyone would have a different idea today. But we all pulled together and set off to the tubing station. After we had signed away any right to sue we were boarded onto a tuk tuk and taken to the first bar. You may have heard about tubing in Vang Vieng, it is the main attraction for travelers in Laos.... And how 21 people died in 2012. Since then it is much more regulated and the bars have calmed ...