Luang Prabang is awesome! In fact Laos is in my top 5 countries I have visited. Yesterday we visited caves and waterfalls which were spectacular and also a museum which was pants. We had a free day today so we went on an elephant trek, fed the elephants and went for a swim under a waterfall. The swim helped as it reached nearly 40 degrees. The room however is 1000 degrees and the fan seems to generate more warm air! Tomorrow we head for Vang Vieng which will ...

Yesterday we arrived at the Thai/Laos border, and stayed overnight on the Laos border side. We took a private boat journey to Pak Beng which is a small port 7 hours into Laos along the Mekong River. It pissed it down the whole way there and all night! We went to the only bar in the town called Hive Bar, where they had tasty cocktails. They had one called p**** Food. I stuck to beer and home made whisky. Fair to say we all got pretty drunk despite the bar closing ...