Rattana Guest House Luang Prabang

... organizing our things, we took a walk around the city. Luang Prabang's stylish city center strikes a stark contrast to the backpacker slum of Vang Vieng. The main tourist avenue is dotted with classy shops selling wood carved souvenirs and silver jewelery rather than shops selling beach gear and the infamous "In the Tubing Vang Vieng" tank tops and t-shirts which can be seen on backpackers throughout Southeast Asia (of course Whitney and I bought one). At night, the main drag of the Luang ...

... thought and I had to get off a couple of times and push (it just proves how unfit I am!) Tom ripped his toe open on some gravel and then it started raining. We made it to the waterfalls, but with all the rain there was no point of taking pictures. We grabbed a cheap pick up truck ride back to Luang Prabang only to find the French owner of the guest house was still not back. <br>The wife told us, with lots of apologizing, that he was still in vang vieng and would ...

... tail for h** benefit. She now had a safe place to put h** jewell**y. Ev** since that time all Siamese cats have been born with a tiny kink at the end of their tails to hold the Princess' rings. <br><br><br><br>Floods<br><br>The rainy season in Lao in 2008 brought with it some of the worst flooding the country has seen in more than 50 years. At the beginning of August we had almost non-stop rain for about 2 weeks, and the ground was saturated. I ...

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... town is held cushioned by the Mekong river on one side a smaller river on the other, that makes Luang Prabang so special. This town simply has spades of atmosphere. You could lose hours walking its colonial-period streets, stopping at its alluring shops or outdoor cafes (the best of which are on the mekong's riverside). It is hard to deny the town of its aesthetic beauty. Though tourism drives Luang Prabang (stunning villas/homestays opening ...

... Frenchman who was sat on a rock smoking a spliff and looking all spiritual in a stylistic kind of way. More tourists began to arrive (some red-faced and groaning that in America/Australia/Canada there would have been a lift to the top) as the sun became a flaming orange ball and dipped towards the distant crags. Then a coachload of middle-aged French tourists turned up and there was almost a pitched battle as people fought to photograph the sunset from a pen-like area that was ...