Mekong Riverview Hotel Luang Prabang

... location just where the smaller river Nam Khan joins with the Mekong River. We hired some bikes and toured around. It&#8217;s a small town by any standard only 26 000 population and the traffic was relatively light. <br><br>On our last evening we were surprised to recognise someone we knew as we passed in the main street, Chris (a Canadian) was one of the other travellers we&#8217;d ...

I decided tot take the bus to the next place. I was supposed to be the lusury bus but it was not but at least it had air con. Lots of other tourists travelling as well. We passed through some stunning scenery in the mountainous region on a very teisty road. Every couple opf hours we stopped to have a snack. After avout 8 hours we arrived in Vientiene which is also on the banks of the Mekong.An alternative way to get here is by ...

... br><br> We drove east from Vientiane, following the Mekong, towards the Vietnamese border. The country through which we&#8217;ve travelled in Laos has been continually green and lush, surrounded by forest-covered hills reaching out in every direction. The population density is low, with a total of just 6 million - the capital city boasts a big 134 000 - and this sparsity has been evident on our journeys through the ...

... Kim!!!!!) but was not as lush as our Melinda........!:)<br> <br>We then changed and had some free time (eg - slept!) then down for dinner!!<br> <br>The following day we got up at 630am to bathe the elephants (which again was ace), then we had breakfast and did a 3 hour elephant ride on their necks..... i had a very large male elephant (who weighed 4 tonnes!!!) and boy did i know it after 3 hours- i felt like it!!!<br> <br>My goodness - i didnt ...

... 2 hours to get to the caves. River boat was fabulous but the novelty sort of wore off after the first hour! By the time we got to the caves they were closing and we only had about 10 minutes there. Then it was back on the boat for another hour (down river this time). Bit of a disaster but still we laughed a lot! Saw some amazing sights from the river ...

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... by.<br><br>I've been battling a cold, which I must have caught from the snotty drunken students in Vang Vieng. It's not fair being ill on holiday - but when you're on holiday for a year I suppose its to be expected. If I wasn't all sniffy we would have packed in a trip out to the waterfalls, but Paul made me rest up so that we're 100% ready for our next adventure (which has Paul very excited and me quite nervous) ... living with gibbons !

... the time of applying for the job, Luke still didn't know that he would be here in two weeks. So I had to work out a plan and figure out if I wanted to go or stay. I flipped a coin. Since Laos doesn't use coins in their currency a beer cap was the only thing that I could find. I've found that a great way to figure out how you truly feel about something is to flip a coin, or beer cap in this case. As soon as you see the result of the flip, you can feel either an ease ...

... the colourful long boats representing the only mode of travel for the villagers. Perhaps of greatest interest to me was that Ania finally gave me the &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; for my first solid food in days - yeah!!! Every once in a while I get a glimmer of hope that I could be happy again, but really don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to happen.<br><br>Arrival in the UNESCO designated heritage site of Luang Prabang left me ...