We made it up to Konglor village with little incident and managed to team up with an Italian guy to share the boat ride through the cave (max of 3 to a boat, so worked well!). Having left ThaKhek at 7.30am, we made it to Konglor in time to get one of the last boats through that afternoon, meaning we would be able to leave on the 7am bus to Vientiane the next day…we've been putting in some serious bus hours recently and it's beginning to hurt (literally - the bu...

We stayed in Tad Lo for another few days trying to gather up the energy to move on and they were a little bit more productive than the previous days; we finally made it to the waterfalls to cool off and it was so refreshing - why hadn't we done this every day?! There was fun with trying to do our hand washing as well - being the dry season, there isn't much water coming down the river, so naturally just as we got through a few clothes - the water ran out! So we...

Very very quiet Savannakhet - surprisng as it's the 2nd largest city in Lao!

My poor attempt at poetry; 24 Hours in Paksong, Thought we could rent a bike, But we were wrong. There's not a lot to do here without your own wheels, So we checked into our guesthouse, And went in search of a meal. Vietnamese Pho for lunch And a super strong coffee too, There's a karaoke bar across the road…. Oh dear god, please, nooo. At least it's a little bit cooler here, It's past noon, May as well have a beer. Morning comes, i...

It seems like all we've done since we got to Lao is nothing. We seem to have skipped from one chilled out place to the next and although we've planned on doing things, we somehow didn't manage to get round to it. It's been a week since we arrived on Don Det and since then; we spent a lot of time working hard making sure nobody stole our hammocks. We swam in the Mekong, twice. Cycled from Don Det to Don Khon to a 'beach', saw the sunset from a boat with a bee...