sunny day and we felt very good about life. It was time to head into town for a spot of brunch then head out into the countryside for a walk to the local caves.

We ended up walking or should I say climbing up Papoak Karst, which is a very steep rocky hill. Andy you would have been proud of us! Of course the kids that accompanied us trotted up it barefoot and with ease, whereas I struggled at some points and I found that it did require a lot of nerve. Basically you were climbing on your hands and knees up steep rocks! Rob was fine and I asked him to leave me at my own pace, so I eventually made it to the top and was quite proud of myself in the end, as I had never really done anything quite so demanding on such rugged rocks! The views from the top were great, so I then decided that it was definitely worth the climb!!!

I wasn’t really looking forward to the decent but it turned out to be a lot easier than on the way up. It was still a good feeling to get your feet back on flat ground and after all of the exertion of the climb to the top we decided we would head back home as we’d done quite enough exercise for one day! It was lovely strolling back through the fields towards the river. There were also lots of bars set up on a stretch of the river nearest to the town, which were great to see, as there were loads of people splashing around in the river and generally lounging around listening to the sound systems which were blasting out happy tunes! It really was a fun place, some may say that it is not traditional Laos and tourism is spoiling it and yeah that could be true, but what is also true is that it is a really lovely place to find a load of similar minded people, who just want to have a bit of fun in a beautiful part of the world. And what is also heart warming is that whilst having that fun everybody appears