We became fast friends with people we met on the two-day boat ride into Laos, and went on several excursions as a group.

We rented motorbikes to cruise around the beautiful Lao countryside.

We went to an elephant camp to check out these majestic beasts. There’s a lot of controversy over these camps as to whether or not they mistreat and exploit the elephants. From what we could see, these elephants are well taken care of and had plenty of space to roam.

Getting to the camp involved a quick boat ride.

We also made our way to some beautiful waterfalls which provided a nice cool down swim.

We had a long day of riding motorbikes, but we still had some energy to hit up some bars and a bowling alley.