Vientianne

Well we arrived in Vientianne this afternoon, after a 5 hour, cramped trip on the bus. It was hot and the way the bus drivers, drive over here leaves a lot to be desired in the comfort stakes. Not that they can really be blamed as they are constantly having to dodge pot holes and cows that wont move off the road, and navigating some very windy roads.

Yesterday we went tubing and we all had a great time, (including another stop at the giant rope swing over the river) however David accidently landed side ways in the water on his last turn, and has injured his ear drum/tube. It has been oozing blood stained fluids for the last 30 hours and we have an appointment with the doctor at the Australian Consulate tomorrow. There must be something about travel and the need for David to injure himself... last holidays he ended up in the hospital for 3 days.

Today i am feeling out of sorts - arriving in hot, stinky, noisey and filthy Vientianne, just made things worse for me. We have been to so many beautiful places and I thought Vientianne was going to be this sleepy little place (from what we had read on the net and travel guides), but it is like Bangkok gone wrong. Of course it is a lot smaller than BKK but a lot dirtier and much harder to get around... and there's not a lot of tourist information, so im not sure we are going to get to see some of the things that we would like to - as no one knows where they are (or atleast they dont understand what we are asking)

I mentioned to David that 3 days at the resort is looking really appealing at the moment.

Maybe i can convince him to travel to bangkok a few days early?

Anyway Catch you later - Stephanie