The Adventures Of Me And My Rucksack

What can i say???? When i booked my ticket on the night bus i thought it would be like any other night bus...... hard seats hot and cramped... oh no!!!!!

This bus was amazing..... It had reclining seats with blankets and cushions, Air-con, you got dinner (which was good) and cold drinking water!!! If that wasnt enough.... as i was just getting comfortable the wide screen TV at the front of the bus buzzed to life to play............ HARRY POTTER!! Had all my christmases come at once ;-)

Well i slept really well and i'm now safley in Pakse..... My Flight leaves for Cambodia in the morning so i'm gonna go exploring for the day!!!

Well i spent a day in the Capital city 'Vientiane!! It was nice enough.... not really much to do! Theres loads of building work going on there so i recon in a year or two that could change. Found a really good indian place so we ate there.... both night's!!!

Ruth and sharon are getting a night bus to Vietnam and i'm getting on to Pakse where i'm gonna get a plane to Siem Reap in Cambodia!! So back on my own from tommorrow!!!

Hello everyone!!!! Bens coming out to visit me for three weeks..... how exciting!!! Its gonna be awesome, he's coming out in about 10 days so we can spend some time on the islands down the south of Thailand and do some snorkling and diving!!!! Its gonna be great!!!!

BRRRRRRRILAINT!!!!

I'm just about ot jump on a bus to Vientiane..... the fun never stops!! ;-)

Wow!!! Yestersay me, sharon and ruth went tubing!!!! We started at 1 and didn't get back till about 7..... oit was an interesting day!!!! As we got in the river at the start there was a great sign-

'NO PISSING AROUND'

it was so funny..... i took a token picture of it so i can put it on here!!! The current of the river is really strong and theres about 7 bars along the river all shouting at you and throwing bamboo into the river for you to grap on to!! At about the third bar Ruth got stuck in some gunk at the side of the river so me and Sharron tryed to help..... it didn't work... there were arms and legs everywhere the man who owned the bar came in to the river and saved us.... he was obviously really desperate for buisiness ;-) At this bar there was a zipwire/swing thing in to the river........ We watched a few people do it then thought we'd give it a go...... what a mistake that was..... i got up there and my upper body strength was appaling... may have been because of the Beer Laos!!!! Imaging me doing a star jump horizontally into the water it was really funny but a bit embarrassing!! I think i pulled a muscle in my kneck and shoulder cos it really hurts this morning!!! Anyway it was all fun and games along the river..... we met this couple who were about 60 and the man had drunk way too much and i think he was on something too!! He fell off a chair in the bar and cracked his head on a rock... it was pretty masty but he was ok!!!! when we got to the end the currents were pretty strong and there was no one there to help you in so we just kept floating.... it was so scary!! We had to grab hold of reeths and mud to pull ourself up onto a bank we all cut our feet on rock as we were trying to get out...... it was naty.... we came out in someones back garden.... they were not impressed :-/ it was a fun day but you have to be really careful.... if we hadden't have stopped we'd have ended up in china!!!!! Just a few tips from what i saw.....

1- Have 3 beers maximum....... No more!!!

2- Don't take any drugs!!!

3- make sure you go with some friend so they can watch you back

4- Watch out for the end!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today we hired bike and cycled to a cave.... it was really dark and scary.... i thought i was in some sort of horror movie!!!!! It was a good day tho!!! a bit knackered now after all that cycling!!!

I'm heading to Vientiane the capital of Laos tommorow!!! Exciting stuff!!! :-)

Well i've just got completely soaked on my way here!!!!! Its like a monsoon out there..... its nasty!!!! I can hardly hear anything the rains so load!!!!! I wewnt to get the bus to Vang Vieng this morning at 10.30 but because there wasn't enough people on it...... it was cancelled till 1!!! Luckily my pal Ruth and Sharon wanted to get the bus too so i had them to wait with!! The bus took about 7 hours it wasn't too bad the bus was cool!!! Unknown to us till we got there the route we took called 'Route 13' can be quite dangerous.... in 2003 11 people were killed by hijackers and 31 people were injured..... nothing majors happened since 2003 tho so..... happy days!!!! We survived ;-)!! I've been in vang Vieng a couple of hours and its really nice and chilled.... its also extreemly wet but i'm sure that'll pass!!! The three of us are sharing a triple room and it works out soooo cheap!!! I can't remember the name of the guest house but its really nice and cheap!!! Laos Is gorgeous so far..... i love it!!! Its still a bit undiscovered so its not too hard to get away from tourists!!! There are hills and mountains saurrounf\ding Vang Vieng so it really pretty!!! Tommorrow we're going to tubing.... i'm really looking forward to it.... should be awesome!!! I'll let you know how it goes!! I'm also gonna do a bit of caving while i'm here!!! Should be a good crack!!!!