21.07.2004
Luang Prabang
Laos effortlessly surpasses every country we've been to so far, in every way. That statement is truer the further north you go. If I were spirited enough to write something really special and memorable about Luang Prabang I would. Right now. Anyway.
More...16.07.2004
Vang Vieng
Laos is stunning. Lush green forests and the bursting, brown Nam Song river rushing past massive jutting stone cliffs covered in thick vines and trees and every living, buzzing, crawling thing you can think of.
More...14.07.2004
Vientiane
We made a 22 hour bus journey from Hanoi, through the border checkpoint near Vinh to Laos and on to Vientiane - getting here last night.
We're just about to jump on a mini-bus to Vang Vieng - to all the Hmong rebels causing major trouble recently - chill out!
Our weekend in the hills of Sapa was fantastic - once we get time a few pics to send through.
05.07.2004
Ba Vi
The palette wars between bitter and sweet taste like an agreeable truce whenever you down the typical strong Vietnamese drip coffee with sweetened condensed milk.
More...02.07.2004
Hanoi
We arrived in Hanoi this morning, and it looks like hitting 38 degrees. From our first few hours here it seems like a superb city. We managed an early morning walk around an inner-city park and lake - their answer to Sydney's Hyde Park it seems.
More...01.07.2004
How about this heat?
Apparently Michael Moore's new documentary Fahrenheit 911 is the highest grossing documentary film in US history after only its first weekend. It's going to make the November US Presidential elections very interesting.
Hue
We left Hoi An for Hue last night, and here we are. Hoi An was a great town to wander round - an old merchant town with narrow alleys and two-storey carved-wooden houses and a generations-old Japanese covered bridge.
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