Thawee Guest House Vientiane

... may be reincarnated into a better life. That's why i don't donate; who cares if I'll come back as a bee or a mule, I wouldn't know about it anyway so what the hell? It's better to buy beer with the money, since I can enjoy the beer now... today... especially because it's still darn hot out there. Sorry, don't want to pee anyone off regarding the heat since you're all shaking in your booties at home but it's SCORCHING here! We spend more ...

... we left) we left for Siem Reap another 6 hour bus journey away. Here we saw many of the Ankor Wat temples and the famous temple with the trees that was in tomb raider film. Ankor Wat is the largest place of worship (being a Hindu temple) in the world &#8211; although Cambodians don&#8217;t seem to like Hindu&#8217;s much &#8211; I kept my mouth shut!<br><br>Surprisingly we weren&#8217;t that amazed my it. Although it is one of the wonders of the world compared to the great wall ...

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... to our application form and demand $1 off us for the privilege, which was blatantly going straight into his pocket. Oh well, could have been a lot worse. Even the old trick of asking for a receipt in English didn't work. During the long wait in the airport I met two English guys. We then joined three Australian girls in getting a taxi into the city and finding somewhere to sleep for the night. Our taxi driver spoke no English ...

... wander and back into the centre of town. A sleepy little place with a few historic monuments. Alice and gang went for a lao traditional massage (basically the same as a thai massage) whilst amber had a walk around exploring followed by interneting. <br><br>went for a long walk to a tiny shack bar at the end of a dust road called sunset bar to ...

... taken from tied up boxes, large boxes, maybe appliances. A peg in each corner of the court with the string stretched around them. Very basic, but extremely practical.<br><br>So there were two courts, one had 2 on 2 and was really serious, the other had 5 on 5 being played and they were just having fun. There were also two sand soccer fields with goals fashioned out of sticks in the sand, I didn't watch them enough to be able to tell if there were a difference in the competition. But all ...

<br>Tja, naja, vielleicht liegt es an mir oder an meinen Erwartungen aber Laos war erstmal so "geht so".<br><br>Alle haben davon geschwaermt, wie freundlich und toll die Menschen hier sind und dass alles soo toll ist und ich muss leider sagen, dass die Menschen hier eher unfreundlich sind, die Landschaft ist schon sehr schoen, aber zunaechst habe ich mich hier gar nicht wohl gefuehlt.<br><br>Insgesammt ist es hier unglaublich ruhig, was daran liegt ...

... about $5 US) we though it would be ok. We went out for dinner and when we came back i opened the door to about 5 rats jumping out of my bag! It was disgusting, and after they had gone i coud still hear them squeking through the walls. I wasn't happy about staying but they were gone now so maybe it would be ok. I sat on the bed and then Dave came to join me. As soon as he sat down ...

... having a new year blessing from the monks. Filmed someof it and got a blewssing and a wristband (see photos/video on facebook). Was pretty cool. Afterwards all of the guests got free food, which was gorgeous and saved me going out for dinner. Also the monks got given presents by the staff.Bizarely they were all from tesco. Seems now that tesco do special present for the monk packs. Can you believe it!

... to axe the travel journal and just take photographs. Then, some days later, I realised that's just the kind of 'head in the sand' thing that us westerners excel at. I reasoned that if I carry on with the journal then no matter how limited its scope and how restricted it is in expression, it will at least serve as a record of the people we met and the feelings we felt at the time, if only as a personal one. Maybe one or two people would read it and would make them think twice ...