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Travel Blogs from Pakbeng
Slow Boat
... may be like in these little communities. We rolled into Pak Beng and set about finding some accomodation, which was surprisingly tricky with a lot of places fully booked. We ended up getting five people in a three bed room for just under #3 each. I had a bed. Christian the Dane was scaremongered into sorting accomodation in Huay Xai which cost a wallet menacing #30 odd. This town is a complete non-entity, it's not even acknowledged in the Lonely Planet and without the ...
Slow boating down the Mekong
... with the locals charging insanely inflated rates - and there's nothing we can do. From accommodation (the cheapest rooms are all full when they actually aren't), to food and beverage prices. Now they tell us? Oh, and forget what you read on the Internet, Laos isn't cheaper than Thailand. Excuse me, please repeat?
So that was before we got on the boat...
Then the story behind the boat. You sold an idea of a boat ...
Bootsfahrt Mekong 1 - von Huay Xai nach Pak Beng
... Boot sitzend, strömten ständig Touristen nach, wovon nur die wenigsten die geplante Abfahrtszeit zu interessieren schien.
Als dann letztlich noch eine Lautsprecherdurchsage im Ort durchgerufen wurde, ging es schließlich gegen 12:15 Uhr los.
Die Fahrt verlief sehr entspannt auf ausgebauten Kleinbusrücksitzbänken, die verhältnismäßig komfortabel waren. Die Landschaft im Mekong-Delta war auf ihre eigene Weise ...
Day 23 9th Nov-Pakbeng to Luang Prabang, Laos
... before sunset. We were set upon by people looking for guests for there accommodations. After we saw pictures of one, being told it was a 3min walk, it had the rooms we wanted and was only 250Baht a room we agreed. So after a 10min walk and us moaning we arrived, Kimberly and i checked out the rooms as the boys were happy if were happy!! Well we weren't happy, it was a 10min walk, the rooms had single beds and the price had gone up to 270Baht!! UTOH now ...
Off the beaten track indeed....Homestay...
... they use to kill animals, the lao guy hit a leaf from about 4 metres away...i just missed but i was close!!
Anyway after all that excitement we went into our house where they showed us to our rooms, and we met for dinner after. Before we ate however they did a little ceremony for us in which they wrap little bracelets around your wrist and it is supposed to give you good luck if you keep them on for 3 days.... we had about 20 on each wrist :/ That said ...
