Haysoke Hotel Luang Prabang

... much in the evening, had some food and a Lao beer. The beer out here is amazing it would rival the Dutch and Germans.

18th September
Stayed in Luang Prabang town itself and hired some bicycles. We visited the Palace Museum as Luang Prabang used to be the capital. The Palace was really interesting and informative you could walk around inside to the King and Queens bedrooms and reception rooms etc comparable to through the keyhole at Buckingham Palace. In the ...

... we cant resist, and so far there not doing any harm!

Today Tom is having motorbike driving lessons, and buying bike things, and i am exploring temples, and after lunch im going to go up the mountain, its meant to have a gorgeous view.

Later we are gonna cycle out of town to find somewhere cheap for dinner that isn't so touristy.
We are really loving LuangPrabang, the culture is so lovely, everyone is friendly, the weather is good, there are monks in orange ...

... autre endroit, voir un autre monde. L<architechture est tres variee. Celle des temple, mais aussi surtout, celles desmaisons des gens.Un melange de style colonial francais, massif et platre, de maison laotienneen bois et en bambou tresse, sur pillotis, et de shop house chinoises, deux etages, en planches de bois

Resultat: Nous sommes aujourd<hui le 7 septembre...et j<y suis toujours. J<ai parcourus la ville a pied, a velo, en bateau. Fait des visites ...

... 1489; 97;ם לשד עצמות 97;נו, טיפסנ 93; ושברנ 93; את כל הנקלה בדרכנ 93; מתעלמ 97;ם לחלוט 97;ן משריט 93;ת או כאבי ...

... or maybe it’s just that I haven’t had NY pizza in awhile I had nothing to compare it to.

After dinner I went to another Wat which had trees shading a table and chairs. I went and read some more. While I was there a monk named Duang came up and started talking with me. He spoke really good English too. He’s been a monk for 6 months in Thailand and 2 years in Laos. We talked a lot about being a monk and what he has to ...

Hallo allemaal!

Hmmm waar te beginnen, bij vandaag maar. Om 5:15 u. op om de monikken te eten te geven. Van 6:30-8:00 yoga les, ontbeten, rond 9:30 naar een grot met heel veel boedha beelden, om 14:00 u. terug, kaartjes gekocht vervolgens geschreven en gepost (dus jullie mogen loten wie dit keer de gelukkigen zijn), 16:00 de Phu Si heuvel midden in de stad beklommen (ja dat spreek je een beetje vreemd uit als je Engels spreekt...) om 17:00 ...

... wife from cancer 10 months later. I hesitated at purchasing the book for 70,000 LAK for just a moment. Soon I was off sitting in The Chill Out Cafe reading about Neil’s loss. Parts struck a little too close to home for me and at times, like Neil was then, I was in tears as I thought about my mother. I then started seeing parts of this journey as my own “Healing Road”.

Walking for me has always been my first choice for transportation on my journeys. It is the best way ...

... 30. This was a lie, we left at 10.30, so waited at restaurant looking ****** off for 2 hours. They took a great amount of effort to load us onto buses which proceeded to take all of a minute to drive down to river edge. At this point the hostel owner (who i already disliked merely for owning the 'bloody skankhole') proceeded to reinforce my hatred by singling out our group, and a few others on the package saying that we had not yet paid her. She basically said we would not be able to ...

... need to buy a gift;
2. laugh at the first price, or look absolutely incredulous;
3. at least halve their first price and watch their reaction;
4. keep driving for the best price until you reach a stalemate;
5. shrug and walk off, pointing at a competing stall selling similar products;
6. keep walking ...

... Office where they informed us, in no uncertain terms, that this was completely impossible. Surely not, we reasoned, we had heard of lots of people doing it. We approached a bargeman on the river and asked him for a ride. But he was greedy and wanted four hundred dollars to take us, with no questions asked. We walked along the river banks looking for a likely craft and we found one that had a bar on it which looked more than suitable for our purposes. Michelle brazenly boarded the ...