Today we wandered to a lake in the centre of the city. It was nice to be somewhere that had a little more air to breathe. On the way we went for lunch at Joma, which is a chain of cafes from Canada that serve Western food. I had humous and veg. I have missed humous!!! It may sound like we eat more Western food and we probably do but that's not because we don't like Asian food. At home, I rarely eat just British food, I've been brought up to eat lots of cuisines ...

Lie ins are becoming a regular feature in our travels and we love it as neither of us are morning people. We don't miss the 7:30am get ups at all. If we don't have a day trip planned for the day then we usually get up at 10am/11am. It's tiring travelling the world. Today was a very hot day, the sun was out and being in the city made everything seem a lot hotter, it must have been around 35 degrees! After finding some lunch we headed over to the Military museu...

We checked out of the hotel at 12pm and made our way to the airport to catch a flight to Hanoi in Vietnam. After researching, we found there are only 2 ways to get to Vietnam. By land or air. We opted to fly as it was either a 50 minute flight or a 24 hour bus ride. The latter being a definite no after our last bus journey in Laos. We arrived at our hotel in Laos at 5pm. First impressions... They drive like mentalists! Motorbikes everywhere and coming from ev...

After the eventful 13 hour bus ride the day before, we had a well deserved lie in. I think it was the afternoon once we'd got up. We did a bit of research into what to do in Vientiane but there wasn't anything that we fancied doing so instead found somewhere to go for lunch, somewhere that did food from home!! That cream cheese bagel was like heaven for my mouth. I have really missed cheese! We went out for tea to the #1 restaurant in Vientiane according to t...

When we booked the waterfall trip we also booked a VIP bus to take us down to Vientiane, the capital city of Laos. We booked this bus not knowing the state of the roads so weren't trilled about the journey. We got on the bus at 8:30am ready for the 9 hour journey. When we got on the bus it was like we had travelled back to the 70s! The bus had a hideous floral design on every possible panel and the curtains were awful discoloured cream ones. Half an hour into...