Back to heather writing again now! It's been a while since the last blog entry so have got all of Laos and Thailand to update you on. So we arrived in Vientiane, the capital of Laos... Nothing much to report from there apart from bed bugs. We then headed to Vang Vieng (home of tubing) where our intended 2 day stay turned into 4! We arrived at midday and decided to hit the river straight away. (For those that don't know, Vang Vieng has a river lined with bars tha...

Helloooo, it's Akon typing now! We're in Hanoi at the moment, the capital of Vietnam. Just had an amazing week here that involved visiting Halong Bay and Sapa (a hill tribe village in Northern Vietnam). Our journey to Hanoi was an experience in itself. After a day of being scammed and kidnapped in Hue (a town en route to Hanoi) by cyclo drivers (literally- we asked for an hours trip, it lasted about 5 hrs despite numerous requests to go back ending with an inev...

Before we start this blog entry- forgot to mention a very important event that involved realising that denim skirts whilst on a tuk tuk was not appropriate attire in Cambodia. George had chosen this particular piece of clothing one day and was sat facing backwards on the tuk tuk. Next thing we notice 2 guys on a motorbike looking up her skirt and laughing to themselves. Two seconds later they'd crashed into a stall at the side of the road and were thrown off thei...

Hello everyone!Well... we've had an unbelievable week so far! Started in Bangkok- this mainly involved racing around the city in tuk tuks, trying not to get scammed, drinking on khao san road and having our eyes opened at a ping pong show (those girls have real talent).We then made our way to the Cambodian border, where we did actually get scammed... after what amounts to kidnap by a tuk tuk driver- we were taken to a small wooden hut and told that this was where...