Building strength despite the fever - which knowing it's won on the motorbikes seems to have made its point. We are allowed to book flights to Luang Prabang for tomorrow.

Searching out the sights of Vientiane: an incomprehensible and unmarked museum of the best Buddha art in Laos (admire the fish clenched in the narga's claw) and hundreds of Buddha's in a muraled Wat.