Having a nightmare with flights...we'd just about decided on what we're doing for the next month or so when BA/Cathay Pacific decide to throw a spanner in the works by not being bloody contactable/not responding to emails/not having an office within about 1,000 miles...anyhoo we're gonna ring BA today to try to sort it...the basics are that we want to fly to Hong Kong from Vietnam via CP on 27/3 in order to get to HK for the rugby 7's (3 days). Then we either want to fly out of HK immediately (if we can't do the China thing for whatever reason) via CP to the Phillipines or Bangkok so we can get to some dive sites...having only taken one flight in Asia (we are entitled to 4 - the 4th is Singapore to Aus in May/June) we should be able to book them but CP haven't even responded to our email and BA have said they can't do anything online...Will update you when we have more news...

We went round Wat Xieng Thong today which was really beautiful, it is probably one of the most famous temples in Laos and has many wonderfully decorated walls and ornate buddhas. It was extremely peaceful, situated at the north end of LP away from the main streets.