30TH January we spent our first full day in vang vieng.Renown for its party life and tubing we headed straight into town to get our tube.When we arrived we thought we would never leave.After all where else in the world can you drink buckets of cocktails, drink beer, free shots, float between riverside bars and jump into the river from 1 of the many rope swings.These were no little rope swings, but huge ones that even my arse went a bit swinging off and dropping...

25th Jan we had spent enough time in Chiang Mai that we were happy to move on.We got up about 10:30 am and scrambled all out stuff together, collected the washing and decided we would head to Chiang Khong which is the main border crossing over to Laos.It was a 5 and a half hour journey and we managed to catch the next bus which left 15mins later.The journey went pretty quickly and was comfortable with a couple of stops on the way up.The second stop was at a stu...