To end this chapter of our travels around Asia, we would like to say a special thank you to the family who helped turn our horrifying experience in Bangkok, into as stress-free and as good a time as it was. We couldn’t have dreamed of more, so thank you....

11 th of October 2011 It was a miserable rainy day on the Island and it was already time to leave. We had our tickets for Bangkok, as we were flying out from there only a few days later and wanted to get there with time to spare. Little did we know, it...

4 th - 6 th of October 2011 We spent one last day relaxing in Vang Vieng, before booking our long journey to the 4000 islands. To get there we needed to go from Vang Vieng to Vientiane and from there to Pakse. We left on the 5 th of October and arrived...

2nd of October 2011 A day before my birthday, we bought our tickets for Vang Vieng in a minivan for 115.000kip each and headed off to see what tubing and the other wonders of Vang Vieng were all about. We left Luang Prabang at 10.000am to arrive at Vang...

30th of September 2011 We woke up to realise we still had no idea where we were. We quickly dressed and went down stairs, where embarrassingly we asked the guy at the front desk where we were. He confirmed we were in Luang Prabang and then asked if we...

28th – 29th of September 2011 It was still dark outside when we got up at 5am to catch our bus. However compared to the evening time, the locals were in full swing. The little food shops were all open, the owners bustling about serving people coffee and...

28 th of September We had bought our minivan ticket the night before leaving from Sapa early morning to Dien Bien Phu (for $12). And so come 7am we were bumping along the twisting roads up in the hills, in a ridiculously old van along with several other...