Ben and Angie Wanderings

Bens Bus Ramble

Sunday, 12 Jun 2011 | Views [570]

It's not all fun and games this backpacking life. Reading travel blogs is often enough to make you sick, all 'happy happy joy joy' with little mention of the mundane and frustrating parts of getting from here to there. For example with us, we haven't ... Read more >

Photos: The Loop

Sunday, 29 May 2011 | Flickr Photo Gallery

Photos: Vang Vieng & Vientiane

Sunday, 29 May 2011 | Flickr Photo Gallery

Buttocks of Steel

Sunday, 29 May 2011 | Views [703]

Buttocks of Steel The night before we first straddled Parker (our trusty 110cc Chinese import motorcycle with tyres the width of bicycle tyres) we sat and read through the notes of other travellers who had gone on the 'loop', a 320 km circular stretch ... Read more >

Photos: Luang Prabang

Thursday, 19 May 2011 | Flickr Photo Gallery

Photos: Two day Mekong

Thursday, 19 May 2011 | Flickr Photo Gallery

Slow Boat, Luang Prabang and the party town of Vang Vieng

Wednesday, 18 May 2011 | Views [1732]

Following the Gibbon experience we hopped onto the slow boat for two days down the mighty Mekong River. Before watching an impromptu group of Lao people try to drag several sheets of steel from the bed of the river we were off, taking in the beautiful ... Read more >

Photos: The Gibbon Experience

Saturday, 14 May 2011 | Flickr Photo Gallery

Photos: Thai - Laos Crossing

Saturday, 14 May 2011 | Flickr Photo Gallery

The Gibbon Experience

Saturday, 14 May 2011 | Views [1131]

Angie is away on a weaving course so ill give you a personal account of my favourite day.   Day 2 (first morning)   It's 5.40am and I'm awake before the alarm. Our tree hut has no walls or blinds so resistance is useless when the sun decides you should ... Read more >