Villa Merry Lao-Swiss Luang Prabang

... kind, expertly sewn and very colourful, silver jewelry, and so on... It's impeccable and very well organised. If the remainder of our trip wasn't still so long, we'd be haggling away and buying a bunch of things. The market is open every single night between 5 and 10 pm, and it seems to take an enormous amount of effort to set up and to remove, for the amount of sale and revenue they actually make. Competition is fierce and product differentiation is very low ...

... because you could fill your bowl really high) and we enjoyed chatting with the Australians and their friends (I can only remember one of their names, Tom). After dinner, we headed to the food stands near the market and got each chose between a fruit shake or coffee shake for dessert. We headed back to the hotel for an early night in anticipation of our trek the next day. <br><br>We were hopeful that our tour company had managed to scrounge up additional participants to join us in ...

... a milder concoction of ginger. A shot was tempting but seeings I am fighting an respiratory infection, I decided to pass.<br><br>I visited the doctor yesterday where I was prescribed OTTC (over the Thailand counter) antibiotics. The combination of the air con/heat/pollution/non stop action has worn me down. Its good to be resting and catching up on my writings and emails.<br><br>Happy Halloween to everyone!

... were there. His wife made me some noodle soup and even though I'd just had a big lunch I tried to be polite and to eat as much as I could. It was delicious but I was already quite full. His son came home and suddenly saw himself burdened with the task of taking the 'falang' out to the weaving villages on his motorbike. He didn't seem particularly enthusiastic about this task his father had bestowed upon him, but off we went. I was wearing ...

... temples and the old Royal Palace and a Night Market.<br>It is a slow paced town and good just to kick back in, enjoy some good food at the bakeries and the view of the Mekong River (that river again) from the temple on the hill.<br>If you want to sit back and take easy then this is the place.<br>

... species of dung beetle, also known as scarab beetles, tumblebugs or &#8220;roll**s&#8221;, and they can range in size from 1mm up to 6 cm. H**e are some int**esting dung beetle facts I found on the int**net. <br><br>Most dung beetles search for dung using their sensitive sense of smell, but some of the small** species simply attach themselves to the dung-provid**s to wait for their reward. Aft** capturing the dung, a dung beetle will roll it ...

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... mainly for tourist but its locals selling their crafts which directly goes to them. I didn&#8217;t buy much, just some small things. One really cool thing about this town is that there is a book store called Big Brother Mouse which publishes children&#8217;s book in Lao language then will the financial support of people they go into remote villages and introduce books and reading to children who have never seen a book before. I was hoping to go into a ...

... talked with enthusiasm about a small village upriver which they had just left after a three week stay. The village was not mentioned in any guidebooks - yet. It seemed like this was a place where we could stay with some village Lao people and get to appreciate their way of life. Paula and Jon were going back there and we decided to join them. Paula was going to teach at the school there. Jon just said it was a great place to hang out.<br><br>And that is how we decided to go to Muang Ngoi.<br>