Villa Merry No.1 Luang Prabang

... of ignorance and illiteracy! Ungrateful little *******s. As a substitute, we headed back down the road and went to the Royal Palace Museum, a museum set up in the former palace of Lao's now extinct monarchy. This was rather dull and disappointing, and I can't really be ***** to write about it as I fear it would bore me. There were various artefacts, the king and queen's bedroom, and far too many statues of ...

... the quiet battle over what little space there was, him needing at least 3/4. I probably should've just said something but really didn't feel like it. Next time I will though, no, next time I'll make sure I have a better seat, especially if I paid extra for a more luxurious bus. <br><br>I have to say the scenery was stunning though. We went over very high mountains and had views of deep ravines and valleys, green greener greenest. <br><br ...

Bonjour,<br>apres un trajet sinueux a travers les montagnes du Laos, <br>je suis bien arrive a Luang Prabang. Cette ville est magnifique et possede plusieurs temples dignes d'interet. La ville a garde son passe coloniale, surtout d'un point de vue de l'architecture et il est tres agreable de s'y promener. Elle a d'ailleurs ete inscrite au Patrimoine mondiale de l'Unesco.<br>Apres avoir profite du marche de nuit, j'ai loue un vtt le lendemain pour aller aux chutes de Tat ...

... He was straight on his whistle but we failed to see the seriousness of it all when there wasn't a bike in sight. I think he just didn't get to blow his whistle that often and the occasion got to him. <br><br>The next morning we were roaming the streets of Luang Prabang at 5am. No we weren't drunk but looking for monks. Every morning before the days business starts the people of the town give the monks a food offering. In return they ...

... it was pitch dark in there and there were massive spiders. Lucky I got out of there!<br><br>Today we got a tuk tuk out to see Kouang Si Waterfall in Luang Prabang. Saw loads of tiny villages along the way with all school children on their bicycles. Waterfall was fabulous. We walked along a mud path the whole way up step after step of waterfalls. There were lots of pools to swim in and it was so beautiful! On our way now to see a night market that ...

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... bring back memories of times spent in the student union. I opted for the Mao Lao (Drunk Lao) while Emma had a Pink Gay.<br><br>A few hours later we returned to riverbank for dinner and were lucky to see the boat teams parading through the streets. The first one was carrying a trophy. We thought they were the tournament winner until we saw many more teams pass holding the same trophy. Maybe this is the first sport in history where everyone is a winner. <br><br>

... at the entrance to the vball court. Pics of this will be coming soon. At the hostel, and I'm looking at them now, they use two small ends of bombs for pen holders. They're roughly 10 inches in height and it's just the fins of the bomb, the stem, and half of the head, pretty interesting.<br> Back to the night. I rallied the troops around 7:30. We went and ate first. I scarfed down some chicken and garlic and walked over to the court. Some locals were playing 4 on 4 ...

... evening. Generally the bars were required to close at 11-12. Officially any other place after this time was not really supposed to be open for drinking/partying purposes. Never to be deterred and in the ever resourcefulness of backpackers, we found there were exceptions to this rule. Some local and in truly cunning genius, basically had the idea to operate a late 'BOWLING' alley for many a supposedly sobering night owl to enjoy. But amazingly ...

... drinking lots of beer lao and lao whiskey with the locals.<br><br>Alls well that eats well.... i mean... alls well that ends well... and this year came to a wonderful end - hanging out with our irish, german, british and australian friends at a touristy bar filled with drunk barangs (white tourists), discussing on where we could go to get our cambodian visas and where to add more days to our laos visa (a comman topic ...