Don Chan Palace Vientiane

... got you an all day access pass to the tiny waterpark. There were two swimming pools and five slides (but only two types of slide). For Tom's first time to a waterpark I was a little disappointed for him, but the slides were actually fun and fast as you had to lie on mats face first!
We chilled out for the rest of the day and returned to the fair in the evening. We treated ourselves for Mexican for dinner (only because the restaurant was called Tex Mex Alexia and i ...

... sweat!!! Our minor excursion to the our room, that was predictably on the top floor, would have been boringly easy under pretty much any other circumstances.
The room – at the end of a thin corridor of rooms with curtained windows directly onto the corridor…a bit weird in itself - was at first glance was ok…lots of dark wood but it was only once you started to experience it fully that the gaps in the windows, the bright hotel sign ...

... rest of the World, so we immediately had something to talk about with our travelling companions. Unfortunately, one of those companions was an incredibly angry Israeli man who insisted that the death of Jackson could only be positive as it meant there was “one less Muslim in the World”. Try that for a conversation killer.

On the minibus to Pakse, the angry Israeli man ranted furiously to the driver about ...

... es hier einfach gar nicht so viele Menschen gibt, die Fahrzeuge fahren in der Einbahnstrasse nur in eine Richtung, auf der rechten Seite, bremsen, wenn irgendwas im Weg ist, sehr ungewohnt. Aber trotzdem fuehlt man sich nicht unbedingt willkommen hier.
Naja, ich habe dann erstmal eine extrem teure Elefantentour gebucht, bei der man eine Nacht in einem Turm im Naturschutzgebiet uebernachtet und Nachts die Change hat, Elefanten zu sehen. Das ...

Hi there everyone, Well since returning to Laos, life seems to have gone back to normal. After putting on weight in Australia over christmas I have managed to lose most of it again since returning (amazing what a rice diet will do). So these pics have ...

... which always pleases the locals) everything was going great ......... Until.................................. ...... I was handed a cooked cockerels head!!! Our host (the only english speaker there) told us that it was very special that we had been handed this part of the bird as it is considered the most desirable and tasty part! As special guests , we had been given this privaledge Me and Jens looked at each other trying to not to convey our true feelings to ...

... having a new year blessing from the monks. Filmed someof it and got a blewssing and a wristband (see photos/video on facebook). Was pretty cool. Afterwards all of the guests got free food, which was gorgeous and saved me going out for dinner. Also the monks got given presents by the staff.Bizarely they were all from tesco. Seems now that tesco do special present for the monk packs. Can you believe it!

... thấy nhiều khách tây đến đây, và trách mắng họ cục bộ, bản vị.
Tại sao dân tư bản giãy chết không chịu đến thăm, học hỏi các công
trình xã hội chủ nghĩa hiện đại, mà lại ngó nghiêng, chụp ảnh ở những
di sản thực dân phong kiến ...

... chairs by the river edge and sat down to attempt our first order for lunch, it was still unbelievably quiet and the sleepy Mekong looked beautiful, at this point the thought of spending the rest of the year in Laos was very inviting - especially as we had just seen on the menu that the beer was 50 pence for a large bottle! They say Beer Lao is the cheapest in the world......sorted!




Vientiane, Lao Peoples Dem Rep nikandads2008