Resort Tham None Vang Vieng Vientiane

... davon. Das Tanken war jedes Mal ein Ereignis für das jeweilige Dorf. Die Bewohner kamen und guckten.

Aber was erzähl ich so viel, schaut Euch doch einfach die Bilder an!

Ich bin nun zurück in Vientiane und versuche das Erlebte sacken zu lassen. Außerdem habe ich Zeit mich zu organisieren: Visa für Vietnam, Tickets für die SEA Games – die Südostasiatischen Spiele – und neue T-Shirts besorgen…

Macht es gut, eine wunderbare Adventszeit wünsche ich Euch!

... many of which were draped in reverence with gold silks, and touring the groups was like stepping into time. Tomorrow night when I'm back in Khon Kaen, I'll post pics - I forgot to bring the little USB thingy that connects my camera to the computer.

After Vat Sisaket, we rode our bikes down the main road of the cit to Pratoosay, Vientiane's version of the Arc de Triomphe. It's HUGE - but I guess I shouldn't be surprised because the original is pretty big ...

... midday and we wanted to have showers, having been outrightly opposed to showering in the previous hovel. We moved into the new room and it was lovely, with an ensuite bathroom. We both had showers, got changed, then went to find an internet place.

After this, we found a cafe near the river round the corner from the hotel and had a late lunch. Following our meal it was coming up to 4pm and we went on a long wander, though after ...

... along the Mekong river and its width at the point where we were was around a quatar of a mile. The other side is Thailand and it is where you're able to cross the border by boat.One thing that was very obvious when you got into Vientiane was the lack of Western known shops. This for us was great as sometimes when they are readily available they are too easy to use and detracts from the travelling experience. We found out later that this is a common thing throughout ...

... embassy about 11.45am to ensure we were first in the queue ... by the time they opened the gate at 1.15pm we were hot, sweaty and very tired of hanging around - only to have some local woman push past us all to be number 1 in the que ... and she had only just arrived!
Que yelling and abuse from us and the guys behind us re the lady who pushed in ... but we managed to be number 2 and 3 in the queue - so ...

Tom:

We arrived two days ago. And we are both suffering from a tummy bug. Horrible! I was up all night sweating and dreaming very odd things.

The capital is what you would expect; big and expensive. I dont really know what to say, as we are both too ill to ...

... to any other market where we've been shouted at "You buy from Me !!". In Cambodia the only cars we saw were Toyota Camrys - there were thousands of them, here we've seen all sorts, Lamborghini's to beetles.

The enduring symbols of Laos for us will be yummy sticky rice, served in bamboo dishes and Beerlao. Everywhere sells beerlao, we drove passed the Beerlao brewery and saw walls of crates ready for dispatch. Perhaps that's why everyone's asleep ?!

... y liền xuống theo, chả bắt được cá mà lại bị vấp, đau tê người. Anh Việt trách: sao không bảo tôi tránh xa ra. Anh Lào cãi: tôi đã bảo cá to, nghĩa là có gốc cây rồi, còn kêu gì nữa?

Chuyện ăn





Phư ơng châm của tôi là: cái gì cũng nên biết, nhưng đừng ...

... br>We get back on our van to head back to Thailand. Our driver drives us along the river and see people walking along the river. It's really nice. We arrive to the border, take the bus across the bridge, I get a new Thai visa, and we meet our van driver. On our way back we stopped at a temple. This one was pretty fancy inside. Then 3 to 4 hours driving back to Khon Kaen.