Villa Sisavad Vientiane

In the morning we both complained about the ridiculous amount of roosters that seem to populate the vicinity of the guesthouse, and then swarm around our room in the middle of the night, honking and squawking manically. There's definitely one who no doubt leans his scrawny neck though our window and attempts a cock-a-doodle-do but fails, though nonetheless still proves annoying. They're not even proper roosters, when you see them, they're just scuttling turkey/chicken hybrids ...

... riding our bikes home.<br><br>October 6th<br><br>Our last day in Vientiane and we had to get our Vientam visas. We dropped them off at the embassy (not far from the hotel) at 8am. It would cost 55USD each and would be ready by 1pm. Easy peasy. Walking back from the embassy my back was already starting to sting from the sun's rays so we went to hire the bikes again. We cycled down to the main square and had a massive breakfast (bread, eggs, pastries = very fat Amy and Tom ...

... travel, meant that did a few small circuits of a very quiet area of town, and then locked our bikes up where they couldn't hurt us. We did, much later, feel that we might have been being a bit silly, and plucked up the courage to cycle (mostly along the pavements) out to a local market, and then a little further out of town, along a dirt-track road, to find ourselves a cafe on the banks of the Mekong. We sat and watched the sun set over the water, yonder ...

... a Family Room, but for 3 quid each a night we couldn't really complain.<br><br>After a quick shower it was time to check out what the capital city of Lao had to offer us. As it turns out, not a lot! We did find a rooftop bar on the Mekong River, but other than that for nights out it was quite disappointing. Like everywhere else in Lao the place closes down at 11pm, so we asked around looking for somewhere with a late bar. We were recommended to go to the Chan Palace Hotel which ...

... br>Apres la rubrique tranche de vie, voici la rubrique, saviez-vous que...: <br><br>Les elephants d,Asie peuvent vivre environ 70 ans. Mais s&lt;ils travaillent dans le bois - pour tirer les billots lourds la ou les machines ne passent pas - leur esperance de vie est d&lt;au plus une dizaine d,annees. Le Laos etait jadis connu sous le sous du pays des milles elephants. Il en reste aujourd&lt;hui entre 200 et 400 sauvages, selon les sources. Ils sont chasses par des ...

... ticket, although none of us could quite establish why. There happened to be another Israeli on the bus, who told me that his fellow countryman had just said he was going to kill me, chop me into pieces with a chainsaw and send the parts home to my mother. I didn&#8217;t know if he was joking, but whether he was telling the truth or had an incredibly warped sense of humour, I altogether thought it best to avoid Israelis ...

... the way... it was probably a good 40 mins.... and it was dark by the time we got back to town so we were all a bit cold!!<br>Quick shower and food then straight back out... the main bar was having a cross-dress night where if you cross-dressed you got cheaper drinks... so Matt (2) borrowed one of my dresses which just made us laugh all night as he's about a foot taller than me!<br><br>The next morning our party of 4 separated (again!) for good.... as I was 'tired'(def not ...

On 26th April we left Vang Vieng for the capital of Laos, Vientianne. We booked a trip which involved kayaking part of the way there, which seemed fun at the time but not so fun on the day considering the amount of whiskey we'd drunk the day before! It was a fun trip in the end though. We got the bus to the river and kayaked for a while, encountering fairly large rapids, until we stopped for a barbeque lunch. Katie and I were always at the back of ...

... glistened in the afternoon sunshine. The place was surprisingly uncrowded at the time but we managed to get a friendly tourist to snap a commemorative photo for us. <br><br>We then visited something very reminiscent of Paris. It looks like the Arc de Triomphe but slightly smaller in scale. We had to climb all the way up the stairs inside, past all the souvenir stalls and unbiquitous "Laos" T-shirt ...

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