From Four Thousand Islands we took the BED BUS (yes you read that correctly - see photo) to Vientiene (the capital where we hung out for a day) and then to Luang Prabang. We had an action packed few days which started with a trip to Elephant Mahout Training College! We spent 2 days with the most gorgeous female elephants which had been rescued from a horrible life with the illegal loggers in Laos. We were lucky enough to learn to ride on the neck, take them int...

We crossed the border into Laos after a 10 hour bus trip on the most uncomfortable bus ever. We caught a glorifed canoe with a hairdryer for an engine to Don Det, one of the small islands on the Mekong at the very bottom of Laos. The island was literally a mud track that had about 10 guest houses, restaurants, a couple of shops and electricity was only on for 3 hours a day. We had heard that beer lao was the local delicacy so we tucked into a few bottles with our...