Ekalath Metropole Hotel Vientiane

... t resist eating somewhere named after my bestmate!!)
We wondered down to the river where they were putting offerings into the river. We bought a flower covered float with a candle and inscene to place in the river. A child was in the water to help push the floats out into the current and around us lots of locals were lighting lanterns to float into the sky like hot air ballons. We went back to the main street to join in with the fair fun and went on the bumper cars ...

Tom:

We arrived two days ago. And we are both suffering from a tummy bug. Horrible! I was up all night sweating and dreaming very odd things.

The capital is what you would expect; big and expensive. I dont really know what to say, as we are both too ill to ...

Vientiane ist wirklich "the most relaxing capital of the world"! Es gibt relativ wenig Verkehr und man kann gemuehtlich durch die Strassen ziehen. Ueberall sind Restaurants und andere Laeden, in denen man sich mit allen moeglichen Kleinigkeiten versorgen kann. Leider hat es hier auch wieder sehr viele Touristen und die Hotelpreise sind eher etwas teuer. Fuer 10$ bekommt man hier ein richtiges Loch mit durchgehaengten Betten ...

... the front window and the pretty nasty bathroom became fully apparent. It’s at times like this that you just have to sit back and think how much you’ve paid for the room and then re-evaluate the feelings you are having. We parted with $25 (£15-ish) per night and I guess for that it became bearable, although their online review would warn future guests of this horrid little place. We had two nights to contend with and really it was not ...

... the foreseeable future.

Just as we thought the journey couldn’t get much weirder, we stopped at a restaurant for a toilet break and looked around to see a pair of buffalo ears on the side of the road, with a severed buffalo leg casually strewn next to a motorbike next to the main road. Perhaps the Israeli and his chainsaw got there first.

Now, I do make promises to myself, but I frequently break them ...

... Ein von der Landschaft her wunderschoener Ort, der durch die Touris leider zu einem drogenverseuchtem Ballermann fuer Arme gemacht wurde (kann schon verstehen, dass die hier nicht so freundlich zu Touris sind). Sehr traurig alles. Ich bin auf jeden Fall froh, dass ich in der Nebensaison hier bin, ich glaube, sonst haette ich es dort keinen Tag ausgehalten.

Ich habe dann beschlossen auf das Weltberuemte Tubingen (man laesst sich ...

... took our room and we booked a bus for that night. We then spent to day bumming around, I tried to find a solution to my ipod suddenly stopping wanting to turn on (which I still haven't found, despite re-setting it thousands of times dammit). That evening we turned up to the bus station to get our. which turned out to be a party bus. it was called the King of Bus (genius) and was a double decker sleeper affair and painted on the outside like a circus ...

... as hard as i tried i could not break that skull with my teeth ....................our host took it off me ...and in one go handed me back the skull in two parts. There was the brain , i easily recognised it as it stared back at me! I scooped half the brain into my mouth .............it tasted like Chicken Pate..........there was no drink around to wash it down .....the unpleasant aftertaste kicked in as i handed the remainder to Jen .............."Enjoy" i ...

... khách sạn với xe con của ông. Qua
một đêm ngủ chập chờn, một ngày xe đi mệt, tôi ngủ một giấc thật ngon
để lại sức cho chuyến đi Luangprabang ngày hôm sau.



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... quite drunk from only 2 beers (must have been the early start!) I dragged the boys along the river and around the Palace, Wats and Royal Temples - Haw Pha Kaew then over the road to Wat Si Saket, built by the king in 1824 where 3000 Buddha's in gold were placed in the walls! On route to the next historical monument, we passed the local shopping mall just in time to see some very dodgy singing contest ...