Up with the dawn we were collected and ferried out of the town to our chosen elephant camp, after the not so nice treatment we witnessed in Nepal we planned for a more positive experience and were assured that this camp was ethical. We arrived to the sight of 3 elephants with benches strapped to their backs and were shuffled unceremoniously on. Our hearts sank a little but the trek was weaponless and easy on the elephants, only gentle words of persuasion we...

After a distinctly sleep lacking night we arrived in Luang Prabang at 5am via tuk tuk, as luck would have it we were just in time to see the precession of monks walking down the street passed the temple where locals and tourists alike were seated with rice in hand giving alms to the monks, unable to purchase food the receivers rely on this as a source of sustenance and the givers improve their karma. We rudely awoke a local hotelier and booked into the Watthat G...