Oui's Guesthouse Luang Prabang

... of an A/C or a fan, if only those miserable chickens would stop crowing needlessly in the middle of our snoring.<br><br>On Wednesday, we took a disorganised tour (ie. without a guide, just transport) to get to the Pak Ou caves in the morning and to the Kuang Si waterfalls in the afternoon. The caves are reached by boat on the mighty Mekong River. It was a cold 1.5-hour ride to get there; the caves are 54 meters long and of course, there are no lights or ...

... trying to sell us anything, no one that spoke English, no toilets, no showers, no electricity, and literally nothing to do besides observe the family. For the first couple of hours the only people occupying the house were the children, seemingly being taken care of by their older sister who couldn't' have been more than ten years old herself. The older sister spent the afternoon cleaning up the house, including removing the chicken droppings from their small enclosed dirt front yard. Two ...

... but some kind of peculi*r cultur*l phenomenon. More l*ter). After bre*kf*st we *ll he*ded down to the pier for 9*m, h*lf *n hour before dep*rture w*s scheduled. Unfortun*tely, the sodding bo*t w*s full *g*in; evidently people get there ridiculously e*rly. We he*ded str*ight to the b*ck, thinking it w*s time for more VIP Room shen*****ns, but were dev*st*ted when we discovered th*t the b*ck room on this p*rticul*r bo*t w*s n*rrower th*n on the ...

... Something that happens a lot in traveling). So our group of 12 managed to find a decent spot on the ferry and spent the day much like previously. Although we organized a proper Connect 4 championship between us which I somehow managed to win! The only other note of entertainment was when Tom foolishly fell asleep, not wise when I had access to a blue highlighter pen. When he woke up and everyone started laughing at him, we said it was because he'd been snoring whilst asleep. It ...

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... Emily and I couldn&#8217;t get our kayaking straight. We kept zigzagging like a snake through the river. After soon kayaking, horsing around with splashing each other, a relaxing swim in the freezing cold stream water, we hit some rapids. They weren&#8217;t LARGE, but they were good enough for my first time kayaking down rapids. Everyone got through the first bit fine, which I think were the most fun. On the second group of rapids, Evie and Sarah ...

... was people gathering tall grasses by the roadside and also from the river beds. Their gatherings were heaped onto carts and off they went. We often wondered what happened to all this grass and later discovered it's dried to cover their roofs. We were waved down by the police and just as quickly waved on after they had studied our back wheel cover. Thanks (again) Karl!<br><br>Three toll plazas today...NZD1 each time.<br><br ...

... even fewer vehicles. The city has recently been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site and tourists are starting to arrive (literally) by the boatload. And not without good reason. Luang Prabang has thirty two wats, most of which are truly awe-inspiring, as well as crumbling French colonial architecture and Indo-Chinese river front structures.<br><br>We spent five enjoyable days wandering around quiet streets, sitting by the river at sunset, ambling around wats or meeting up for drinks ...