We waited until the morning to pack for our three days cycling, trekking and kayaking including two nights home stay in a village. We quickly packed and squeezed in everything we need for the trip. We had to sacrifice allot of things just because we could fit them in the bags, we also checked out of our hotel and headed for the tour operator shop. We left our packs their reluctantly and hopped into the van and as we drove away I notice my knee was quiet sore and I realised that the scratch that I had on my knee from mud volley ball was infected and very red. We arrived 2km up the road and made a last attempt to find some bandaids. There was nothing around and with Jacinta’s brother in-law recently bumping his ... read more

We all didn’t sleep very well and by the time we got going and had breakfast it was 12:00 and time to checkout and then check in to a cheaper hotel costing 80000kip. We all meet out the front of Annette and Marte’s guest house at 1:00. Fabien and Arthur stayed at our guest house only 30sec walk from the girls. With the lonely planet as our guide we all went walking tour around the town. We started off on Kingkitsarat rd walking north east and heading around the point Luang Prabang walking back South West along Khem Khong rd. It was an awesome sight to see the mighty Mekong river and it was only the dry season, I can only imagine how massive this river would get when in the wet season. Our group came ... read more

We got up late again and agreed to all meet each other at 11:00 at the front off the hotel to tube down the river and by the time all six of us got sorted we were in a tuk tuk getting dropped off at the river. We left Dave and Nick behind because they were so sick from drinking all day and night they just couldn’t function. Jacinta, Arthur and I decided to walk up 500m to get a better tubing experience before hitting the first bar. Our goal was to have one drink at the bar and then tube down the rest of the river. We meet up at the first bar and all sat down feeling tired and lazy, it took awhile to work up the courage to have a beer and we ... read more

I woke up late feeling very dry and seedy, we didn’t emerge from our hotel until 11:00 and had breakfast at 12:00. We started to go for a walk around the town to get an idea of what’s around. It’s such a quieter town than what we are used to so far and with massive limestone mountains in the background it makes for a stunning view. It was clear right from the start that Lao was a special place and we immediately fell in love with it. We headed down to the river to have a look and bumped into the gang, within a split second we were getting board shorts and swimmers on to go tubing on the river. The cost of hiring the tubes are outrageous and with only one business with tubes they ... read more

We were picked up at 7:00 from the front of our guest house for our day tour, and after picking everyone else up we started to drive out of Bangkok and hopped to get away from the pollution. The pollution was more evident than ever when we gained some height from the city overpass. It hung like a thick blanket everywhere and the visibility was lucky to be 1km. We drove for around 1 ½ hours until we got to the war memorial where over 7000 men were buried from the second world war against the Japanese. We only stoped for an hour before we were back in our van flying down the highway. After ½ hour we stop at a war museum which is only 100m from the Bridge on the river Kwai. We paid ... read more