Spend another day in Laos

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September 4th 2008

Published: November 3rd 2008

As we crossed into Laos the battle stations were up and the sand bags were stacked as the local police, army and civilians prepared themselves for the mighty Mekong to rise again... Trucks loaded with sand were being dumped along the river shore as the locals bagged it into sand bags and stacked the already 5 bag wall even higher. We knew the next 3 weeks was going to be interesting... Vientian... Read Full Entry

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Sarah Hartley & Carl Helliwell

SazandCarlos

Myself and Carlos have spent 19 months cycle touring Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Burma, Loas, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Southern India, Turkey, Greece, Macadonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Holland and now back home in the North of England. Its the best thing I've ever done and would encourage anybody else to do it. Sarah & Carl xx xx ... full info

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Carl power

As you will notice Carl had to tow Neil... You can tell by his face.

Look at that magnificant frame.....Carl's not bad either

Absolutely untouched

Track was tough going!!

Breath taking

Last night in Lao

The road to the brand new border

The last 50 miles from Lao to the Dien Bien Phu border is track and pretty deep on places. These trucks had been stuck for 2 days...

Lao village check point

Every village has one of these and you are not allowed through without waving, smiling or high-5ing!!!

No Mans Land

Not many places in the world can you check out of a country and then sleep on its doorstep... Suprisingly the benches were quiet comfy.

11th November 2008

stottty
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laos - wow - ow
that track looks stupidly good!! haha i would love to do that on my new principia winter fixed bike i got from the club auction..Annette brought some wicked stuff down... scenery fantastic guys.. ps nice to speak to you the other day..missing ya

19th November 2008

Tarmac
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Hey guys. welldone sarah on updating the blog! its nice to see more piccies of carl and dogs!! those kids look scary- look at the picture and onehas got a stick ready to hit you!!!! i was thiking of you guys cycling to uni today and was wondering how you were getting on!! its getting very cold in england! you can now see my breath in my house! still refusing to put the heating on though. hope all is well and your not missing carters banter too much!!! love tara xxx

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