What we have been up to

As we have abandoned the blog for some time I thought I better make a brief summary of where we have been and what we have been up to recently.

After Vang Vieng we headed for Vientiane, the capital. Most things we had heard about the city were true - less beautiful, more expensive and fewer things to do than other Lao cities.

After Vientiane we spent a few days in Kuala Lumpur which wasn't too nice either. Apart from Chinatown which was a cool place, most areas seemed to house buildings that was either banks or hotels. Also, the humidity (95%!) made it just impossible to enjoy anything at all as we were stuck in a big city.

I think that was why we decided to go to Pulau Penang, an island a couple of hours away. We had this idea of an amazing Malysian island paradise which unfortunately didn't exist on Penang. We got absolutely soaked both days we spent there so we decided to not think too much about consequences and flight tickets and go where the sun was. That place was Langkawi island and we haven't regretted going here once. It's amazingly beautiful, don't Google it unless you want to die of jealousy. Seriously, I mean it.