Luang Prabang Saibadee Luang Prabang, what a beautiful chilled out place - we left the americans here but the Essex girls, the Yorkshire couple and ourselves all checked into the same guesthouse. We hired bikes the first day and with a map in hand the Essex girls and ourselves took to the streets to see what was about. It didnt take long to see it as its a small quaint little place that is really friendly and relaxed. We headed to a temple that is supposed to ...

At Pak Beng we all stayed in the same guest house and had dinner together after which we got drink to take back to our guesthouse and stayed up drinking and chatting in the communal area. Next morning, second half of the slow boat journey to Luang Prabang and we all managed to get seated on the floor either side of the aisle so that made the 8 hours go a bit quicker :) Well for most of us anyway - Drew had a bit too much jim beam the night before and looked a b...

When we arrived at Chiang Khong, we were just dumped off the bus at our overnight accommodation! We met a load of other travellers here and had a really good night drinking and chatting! We met Dan and Betty, the Yorkshire couple, Neesha and Leanne, the Essex girls and Drew, Haley, Natalie, Reindhart and Zack all from Atlanta y'all. All sore heads the next morning we headed to get our Laos visas and even though we were first through the border we had to wait ab...

On the Road to Laos So apologies for the lack of updates since we finished the Mae Hong Son loop but we have literally been travelling the entire time. We were supposed to leave the guesthouse at 10am on Wednesday morning but at 10.40 and still no sign of the mini bus the lovely lady who gave us our toast 'to go' when we were late for the gibbons, rang the driver who informed us that he was at the 'gas' station and would be another 10/20 mins - we got picked u...

Ride out day 5 - Homeward bound! (Better late than never...) We saw waterfall after waterfall after waterfall after hot spring after cave SIGNS and didn't stop at one! Actually couldnt be arsed! We'd had enough of the bike and were looking forward to returning to the familiarity of Roger's guesthouse. However, it was an amazing experience and was good to get off the beaten track but 5 days was a bit tight for all we wanted to see and do and would have loved ...