sarahsnowchic

When I first looked into travelling to Laos it was as adventurous newlyweds backpacking home to Australia from Europe through SEA.  Less socially conscious and sustainably-minded, I'd heard great things and it was all about the gibbons and tree-top zip lining experience on the border near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. We'd start here and plan a trip down the Mekong Delta and then spend lazy days in a haze of cocktails floating in a rubber tube out of Vientiane. We never made it. A long story about stolen passports, Portuguese police stations, embassy visits, emergency documents, missing visas, a lot of hassle and a lot of time spent in Nepal and Vietnam and Cambodia instead would mean Laos would have to be another trip altogether.    Jump to 4 years later and as parents of a nearly-two year old the Laos experience we would end up having would be somewhat similar to those earlier travel tantalisations and  entirely different al...