Luang Prabang is a small city where the Nam Khan river flows into the Mekong. It's surrounded by mountains and is a UNESCO World Heritage City. The streets are lined with beautiful old style buildings and there are temples everywhere. It's a really nice place. There's a nice walk up to the temple on the hill overlooking the town for a 360 view f...

Arrived in Laos, we were meant to be gettin the slow boat, but when we got to the port, they said the water is very dangerous so we had a 15 hour bus journey. i had a girl infront of me puking out the window the whole way it was amazing..... also had an old lady squat outside the bus and pissss, u cant buy memories like that... Also an update on...

We just got back from spending two days with the elephants at this eco-lodge outside of Luang Prabang. The elephants are all rescued from logging or other manual labor jobs and brought to the preserve. They give tourists rides to offset their upkeep costs. We spent two days and one night at the lodge, living like a mahout (the people who care fo...

Greetings all you blog lovers out there. The next entry on the Magical Mystery Tour is about a special place in Laos called Luang Prabang. LPB as we will call it is located in the Northwest of Laos. It can currently be reached three ways. 1. Over land from the South via Vientiene, 2.By way of the Mekong or 3. by plane since the airport there has...

We started exploring a little more of what Luang Prabang has to offer yesterday and today. Last night, we attended a performance at the Royal Ballet -- not what normally comes to mind when you think of "ballet" and similar to Thai dancing, with exquisite hand positions, masks, etc. The performance started about 20 minutes late, as the first two ...

After visiting the Buddha caves, we stopped by to see a pottery village. Most of the red clay pots were large and made for local use, however, they had a few small pots with little animals on them for tourists to buy. This little girl and her older sister were trying very hard to get our attention to buy a small pot. Since we had just started ou...

We boarded the prehistoric Laos Airlines plane with a dozen other passengers and wondered if we had been transported to a place 20 years earlier. The cabin was tiny with seats that folded forward like those in a Ford Fiesta and the two giant propellers were the only things keeping us in the air! (PICS) Luckily we made it to Luang Prabang without...

Now what did I do in Luang Prabang? Good question! I'm sharing room with Ian, and he had food poisoning the night before last. Sure enough, with somebody next to me running to the bathroom from 1 - 4 am, I also didn't get a lot of sleep. So the next day was more or less useless, but I went to the Wat Xieng Thong, which is said to be the nicest i...

When got into Laos two days ago. The plane ride from Chang Mai was about 40 minutes. A hell of a lot better than a 2 day slow boat ride. It's hot here 37 degrees and the heat index says it feels like 42. Sweat soaked shirts every day the only down side is Laos has no beaches. Beers are 80 cents and dinner and food is cheap too. People here are v...

This morning we all got up before 6:00 to see the Monks and their collecting of the Alms. Each morning around 6:00 the Monks (and novice Monks, young boys in training) go around collecting food from the local people, since they can only eat what is donated to them in this fashion. It was quite a sight! Probably around a hundred monks lined the s...