So.. we finally found a town in Laos where the people actually smile! What a lovely find! We caught the bus from Vientiane to Tha Khaek as planned, arriving at 1:30 in the morning. We rode a tuk tuk to our chosen guesthouse which, thankfully, had an after hours service bell. A sleepy man in a white towel came to the door and showed us to a large ( Read more... )

We are no longer the dreaded duo!!


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Caving in Vang Vieng. Laos.


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Well, after a VERY long bustrip from Phonsavan we are now back in Vientiane. The bus ride was reasonably uneventful (although there were two more armed men among the passengers - that really is going to take some getting used to!). OH! and we saw a very young boy, maybe six or seven walking along the side of the road with a gun as well.. it was ( Read more... )

Well Vang Vieng is behind us now. We caught a bus out yesterday. Thankfully since Umphang I have invested in some motion sickness tablets.. that road was worse than death highway! My shoulder is bruised from banging into the window every three seconds! We saw our first civilian with a gun (well he probably wasnt a civilian but he was out of uniform ( Read more... )

Well we spent a full week in Vientiane. It is a nice city but my perception of it kind of soured toward the end. Once it gets dark the streets fill up with people trying to sell opium. They are all there during the day as well but for some reason once it gets dark they start approaching you. There were tuk tuk drivers who we walked past four or ( Read more... )

The visas are all done!! We have two lovely new stamps in our passports, a visa extension for Laos.. from 15 days to 30 and a visa for Cambodia valid for 30 days.. SO, we are now able to leave Vientiane and get on with our Laos adventure ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARRY!!!

Well, what has been happening here? After our last update Luke and I headed into town for the festival. It was pretty amazing, there was a huge stage show with Thai dancers and a performance of the legend behind the Naga fireballs. There were food stalls galore, but silly us, we'd eaten before we went so we were too full to try any of the local ( Read more... )

We can actually SEE Laos! We are still in Thailand but we could swim there if we wanted to! So no more stressing about our visas! The trip here was.. LONG! We left Chiang Mai at 8pm, arrived at Udon Thani at 8:30am and then got straight on another bus to Nong Khai. By the time we finally got a room at a guesthouse it was 11:30am (phew!). Our bus ( Read more... )