L'hotel Souvannaphoum Luang Prabang

... the price of $18, and made my way to my room. Exhausted, I slept until past noon and spent the day walking around the city. I had yet another massage, this time Swedish, and had a manicure ($3). The next day I flew to Kuala Lumpur where I spent the night in the same hostel I'd stayed at during my last two times in K.L. I had dinner at street stalls in China Town and watched a movie before heading to bed on my very last night in Asia. <br><br>I flew home on November 4. My total travel time ...

... it reminded me of my trip up the river in South America. The Mong village was ok. I came across a chap making the local bootleg whisky which has a snake in the bottle. I tried the whiskey in the still. Quite strong. <br><br>The cave had a statue of a Buddha and was fairly interesting.In a visit to a different village I walked through a temple which had a couple of dragon boats. A month earlier they had raced them down the river. I ...

... could chill out. In an all-too-familiar twist the Wifi 'wasn't working' and wouldn't be 'fixed' in the immediate future, and we were in the smallest room we'd stayed in since Vienna to boot. With a building site next door. So much for chilling in the hotel - luckily Luang Prabang is an eminently pleasant place to wander all day so we did exactly that. The old capital is chock-full of temples (34 in total) as well as an ex-royal palace, a Hmong ...

... br>Luang Prabang is a charming town and perhaps one of the most beautiful we&#8217;ve visited in all of South East Asia. It has such a charming and relaxed atmosphere it would have been very easy to spend four or five days relaxing in this wonderful town. However we only have three weeks to spend in Laos, we are anxious to explore and gain a flavour of the whole country.<br><br>Here are the photos.<br><br>Next stop, a visit to an elephant sanctuary.

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... pile, and a small bowl of sauce. A big pot of water is in the middle on top of coals and the water is beginning to roll. I've got a small plate, a small bowl with a spoon, chopsticks in front me, and what feels like fire ants inside of my knees. I got the idea of what I was supposed to do, I just didn't know how to do it. So I watched the lady in front of me. <br> OK, so you take the chop sticks and grab some bloody raw meat to place into your corner of the boiling water. While ...

Laos,Loas, lovely laos. <br><br>Hi friends.. I know, its very late. Its so hard to find fast internet anywhere and uploading the photos take hours if there is no decent speed.Anyway, enough of the excuses. I AM SLOWLY CATCHING UP TO THE PRESENT! It seems all the computors just don't want to download any photos. So i am fed up of waiting, so i will have to add photos for all of Laos on the next one. Least you got some idea for now of whats been ...

... murals depicting Lao life and folk tales. Beautiful! <br> <br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b r><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> The Royal Palace is now a museum. No photos are allowed which is a shame because the throne room was incredibly ornate and beautiful. Also on the palace grounds are a temple and the royal theater ...

... evening. Rising dramatically above this tranquil scene are the jagged karst hills with their improbably sheer sides. These hills are honeycombed with Buddha-filled caves and at sunset vast numbers of bats emerge from within and congregate in huge swirling clouds as they make their way down the river valley.<br><br>One day we decided to visit one of these caves which was about eight kilometres on the other side of the Nam Song down a dusty track. The sun beat down on us as we walked ...