We’re off to Melbourne Airport for our 14 hour flight to Vientiane, via Bangkok. I am glad to be writing this entry because I have had many conversations over the preceding weeks about how to pronounce Laos… a friend who has it on good authority from a guy that is from there believes that it is said “Layos”. These and many other mysteries should be solved over the coming weeks. I think that the Yanzi is off the itinerary which is sad, as it was the one big thing that I wanted to see, but it is sadder for the 100,000 people that have been displaced due to the spring floods. It is more like a humanitarian disaster than a tourist destination at the moment. We’ll get to see the scummy end of the Yanzi in Shanghai.
So travel with us as we blog our way around Laos (Layos) and Southern China.