Leaving Laos

Becca and I left Vang Vieng yesterday by mini-bus to Vientiane, the capital city of Laos.

Vang Vieng is a pretty cool place, but there isn't much to do there other than go tubing (which consists of getting drunk and floating in intertubes) and watching Friends. The morning I wrote my last blog Becca came home not feeling too well and not up for much. Good thing because we had a thunder storm all day and night pretty much. So we just watched Friends, then took a break and watched Family Guy at another place. :) Then got dinner with some travelers from our slowboat. Dominic from England, Jordan showed up and apparently got a bit of a tummy bug, and Andrea: a girl from Germany who has been sick since we left Pak Bang.

The next morning we decided to head here. Jordan is still over there, he wanted to get better and go tubing. My wound is scabbing over finally!! Still a bit red and hurts sometimes but LOADS better! Whew! :)

We arrived here yesterday, checked into a guest house and walked around. Really there is not much to do at all here so we booked a train this morning to take us to Bangkok. We'll be leaving in a few hours for the border, the hopping on a sleeper train which will take us to Bangkok by tomorrow at 6:30am. Then we'll chill there for a day; Becca might get a camera since her's was taken. And at 4;30 we will fly out to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to check out the killing fields and the such.

We'll spend about a day there. Then take a bus to Siem Reap and spend about 3 days at Angkor Wat. From there we are probably going to take a bus for about 10 hours to Bangkok.

Then I have about a week left and we are deciding between going to the Thai islands, Bali, or to the Phillippine Islands. Looks like we are leaning towards the Phillippine islands because we have heard such amazing things from a fellow traveler and there is LOADS to do there! Trekking, Kayaking, Rafting, Snorkeling, Diving (Becca wants to get her paddy certification), horse back riding, and of course laying out on a pristine beach and tanning :) Mmmm. haha

So all we have booked now is our train to Bangkok. We're having some issues with our flight to Phenom Phen at the moment; but it will work out-opps no we just booked it as I typed! Taxes and stuff made it go up from like $50 dollars to $90. So what we are going to do is fly to Phenom Phen, bus to Siep Reap, and take a long bus to Bangkok because that will be much cheaper than going BACK to Phenom Phen to fly back to Bangkok. We are going to weigh our options until we get to Cambodia with regards to time and money before deciding which beautiful destination I end my travels at once we arrive BACK in Bangkok from Cambodia. Bangkok is like the hub of everything. It depends on money, on how she can meet up with Jordan easiest, and how I can get back to Bangkok for my already booked return flight home on the 14th of June.


Sooooo I might post a blog at the airport in Bangkok with more information on our decision OR I might wait until we arrive in Phenom Phen. :) I'm stoked to check out Cambodia and to end my travels at a beach, no matter where!! :)

Miss home and love you all loads and loads and loads!!!
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