Having run away from Vang Vieng before I got too tempted to buy lots of drawing pins and make my own amusement we headed to the very French town of Luang Prabang. The town, like most in Laos, is set …
Vang Vieng
Little sleepy Laos, little quiet sleepy Laos...where did it all go wrong!?... When some Westerner probably first stumbled across idylic Vang Vieng having just left Thailand and thought I know lets …
Vientiane
Bright lights and big city?!? Well not quite, this is Laos we are talking about and the capital city though it is Vientiane feels more like a large town - and a very nice town at that. Similar to …
Moped Loop
Day 1 - Noodle Soup! Ok, who said it was hot in Laos?! Oh yeah, I did in my last blog - I take it all back. Woke up the morning we were due to set off, sat in the hostel courtyard having brekkie and …
Thakhek
Although Savannakhet was our first stop in Laos this was for all of 12 hours, we arrived around 6pm on our sardine bus and then come 6am the following morning we were on a tuk-tuk back to the bus …
Border crossing to Laos
From Hue we had booked onto a bus to the border and through to Savannakhet in Laos. Border crossings are notorious for scams, stories of being dumped halfway and left or drivers demanding more money …