As I write this the 12 seater mini bus I am in slowly makes its way along a far less than perfect 1 and a half lane road which winds its way along the mountain range to Luang Prabang in Northern Laos. In the last 4 hours of the 6 hour journey we have come close to cleaning up a dozen stray little pigs, have overtaken busses around blind corners and been only a few centimetres from falling hundreds of metres down a cliff face(fortunately Danielle has been asleep for ¾ of this journey as that is one of her bigger fears). We are now a week into our trip and after spending 16 hours on a train, 8 or so hours on busses we are not really anywhere near our entry point to this holiday
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