La Maison de Xanamkieng Luang Prabang

... ourselves free since the current was so strong) and make his way back to us to free us. After our first rapid encounter, we became experts, and managed to stay aboard our kayaks even when one of the rapids sent our guide toppling over into the water. After about an hour and a half of kayaking, we stopped on the side of the river to eat lunch and stretch. At this point we were somewhat regretting signing up for a three hour kayaking trip - it was exhausting! After lunch we finished the final ...

... tuk-tuk there, got some more drinks, *nd st*rted up * few g*mes. I got * strike my first time, *nd w*s feeling gre*t, but it *ll went down hill from th*t point on. I c*me second in the first g*me, but then c*me sixth in the second g*me! I bl*me *lcohol. It w*s still lots of fun though, *nd I took lots of silly photos, one of the most ludicrous being when * bunch of us decided to peel the stickers off our bottles of Beer L*o *nd stick them on our forehe ...

... or picturesque but the merchandise is still beautiful. There were hundreds of hand stitched pieces of clothing and house decorations. There was barely any tourist tat in sight - a far cry from China.<br><br>Before we got the slow boat towards Thailand we had heard that around 5am-6am you could see the monks collecting alms. We dragged ourselves up from bed in search of this daily religious practice. A sea of saffron flows from each Wat in town towards the same main ...

... on top of the bull also makes you appreciate how big elephants actually are, when one see food and makes a run for it, you realise you are a very long way of the ground!<br><br>After walking them through the day we took our two new friends to bathe, this turned out to be more fun than the day before as soon as the elephants entered the river they sucked up water with their trunks and sprayed us with it, what an experience! The only way we could ...

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... hostel which is on the second story of the house, so I guess that makes it a balcony. Fog rolls through the green mountains in the distance like sap down a tree. Between here and there the roof of a wat can be seen. If not for the, wait a second..1, 2, 3, 4, 5...21 electrical lines running in front of the hostel, the view would be a little better. Nope, make that 24. Across the street is a villa for diplomats and business men to stay. I hear it's $1200 a night to stay there ...

... the stage where they were photographed for some time. We could now see that the groom was an exceptionally tall young man who looked about as nervous as you can get without actually fainting. He was wearing a James Bond style white tuxedo and was at least three times the height of his new wife.<br><br>After a short speech the guests flocked to the food tables and stacked up prodigious amounts of unidentified foodstuffs on paper plates. Having already eaten that evening, I opted to play ...