Dash to the elephants

Laos - Tad Lo
Originally uploaded by Big_Ade.

Cutting this bit short and just to keep my log complete the 20 hour bus ride was to take me south in Laos for a spot of tourist action before heading off to the Elephant festival for some good honest sweaty volunteer action. It was here in Vientiane I met Ahmet with a ‘T’ (a private and pissed joke), this git was another bloody photographer who I met in Vientiane only to later find he was seated next to me on a bus heading further south. I call him a git as it was he who put the idea in my head that I needed to upgrade my camera. He did this simply by having a much better camera than mine and my competitive streak did the rest!

Well we spent a couple of very geeky days snapping away near Pakse in southern Laos before I started my mad dash up to help with Nelly and her cronies at the Elephant Festival.