Ramayana Boutique Hotel & Spa Luang Prabang

... a life of hardship. It's very sad because the cycle repeats itself generation after generation.<br><br>Today, we went for an elephant riding tour. Neither Pierre nor I are too crazy about the idea of using animals for our entertainment (for e.g. we never go to a circus involving our 4-legged friends and we don't go to zoos) but this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Our ride is a 30-year-old female named Khaman and our mahout, the elephant handler, a mature ...

... the family. Instead, the family squatted or sat on small chairs around a very small table in the kitchen, eating out of small bowls, their food and faces illuminated by a single candle. Before we finished our dinner, the grandfather of the house came over and sat with us. He commented that we had a lot of food provided for us for dinner, a comment that caught me by surprise and made me realize just how much we take the abundance of nourishment available in America for granted. Our dinner ...

... t, this bo*t did not serve b*guettes, something I h*d been relying on *s I h*d not brought *ny food. I h*d to m*ke do with sever*l p*ckets of crisps inste*d. I m*n*ged to p*ss the l*st few hours of the journey by writing my blog, *s Sus*n kindly lent me her l*ptop. All in *ll, the second d*y in no w*y comp*red to the fun of the first, *nd w*s * cretinous voy*ge indeed!<br><br>Mercifully we *rrived in Lu*ng Pr*b*ng *t 4.30pm *fter seven hours. We m*rched up ...

... and even more annoyed when I noticed I had 2 leeches on me! We then headed back to the main waterfall park to wash off and head back into Luang Prabeng for the night. <br><br>I managed to find a bar that was showing the Villa v Pompey match so I was happy, especially more so when we won! So not a bad start to the season after all! Come 11pm we all headed over to the Bowling Alley again. It wasn't as busy this time as the previous night, but once again I somehow managed to win ...

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Fazit zu Laos:<br><br>Wetter: Trotz Regenzeit haben wir es wohl ziemlich gut getroffen. Es hat ab und zu mal geregnet, aber meistens nur fuer sehr kurze Zeit. Von anderen Reisenden haben wir erfahren, dass es manchmal auch ganz anders aussehen kann...<br><br>Essen: Sehr gut! Eigentlich ist das Essen sehr aehnlich wie in Thailand und Kambodscha, einfach die Portionen sind leider kleiner :-(<br><br>Unterkunft ...

... br><br>The Northern mountain villages are quite different from low lying ones. Primitive thatched huts on bamboo poles with grass roofs, line the road side. Many have woven rattan walls. Actually they are right on the road! Children, dogs, pigs, chooks, all running about and often on the road. Thats one of the reasons it took 9 hours to drive 363k's! <br><br> Our last hour on the road saw the villagers readying ...

... the next day who had tried and failed to refuse lau lau and were now walking the flowery streets of Luang Prabang in an alcohol induced haze muttering that they must learn the Lao word for 'no'.<br><br>We weren't invited to the wedding ceremony itself the next morning but we did go to the reception. This took place in a large hall that looked like it was normally used for indoor sports, the outside of which had been hung with thousands of cascading fairy lights. We were told by ...