We actually made it up!Ha Long Bay here we come.4 hours on a bus all the way to Ha Long where we were due to spend 2 days and 1 night on board a boat cruising around Ha Long Bay and stopping off at certain destinations. This was one of the first trips that the organisation actually wasn't too bad and within about 10mins of waiting around we were on board our boat.The boat was pretty swish and for $45 including food wasn't too badly priced either.There were I t...

Well what a horrible bus journey!When they say its the bus journey from hell i thought they just met time wise but proves that there is more to a bus ride than it seems.First of all we were on the hot sweaty bus to Vientiene that took 6 hours.It went quick enough and we were happy the first part was complete.When we got to Vientiene we got on a tuktuk taxi for about 30mins to the bus park.We basically got shuffled from 1 place to another by the rude Laos people...