Sala Prabang Luang Prabang

... old town is converted into a night market. Vendors arrive at 5 p.m. each night and set up row after row of jewelery, handmade crafts, scarves, silver trinkets, and colorful clothing, all of which is very attractive and well made. I'd consider it the highest quality market I came across during my travels. Naturally, there were plenty of food stands to accommodate the hungry tourists as well. My favorite type of stand was the fruit shake stand, which sells fresh made fruit shakes (you ...

... smiling people you are ever likely to meet. We hung around the town a bit (got a new camera), went to the best dinasour museum ever where were could pick up and TOUCH dinasour bones (!!!!!!!!) and took an over night trek out into the rural areas with a homestay for accommodation. <br><br>The trek was comical - brilliant, long but comical. Our ranger pionted out so many different things and inevitably stuck it in his mouth straight ...

... back tomorrow night. She said we can stay another two nights no charge and she would pay for our flight to Vientiane. Although we weren't planning on going to Vientiane first, we didn't argue with the offer of a free flight and accepted. <br><br>For the next two days we went back to our Mekong breakfast place (and were rewarded with bigger and bigger portions), as well as the night market bbq. <br>We were told our flight was at 1pm on 2nd Oct, but because there were not ...

... watching TV one evening at my house with a friend when at about 10pm I noticed wat** seeping in to the living room from und**neath the front door. I grabbed a mop in my feeble attempts to push back the wat** when 2 minutes lat**, swoosh!, a deluge starting pouring into the house. I felt that I was in the middle of a riv** with no wh**e to run. No exagg**ation, within 10 minutes the wat** level went to the top of the "painted on" baseboards in ...

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... as well as galleries showcasing local artists' work), it has been handled so as not to have impact negatively. In fact walking the quieter alleys between the temples you can easily find yourself in a road filled with locals as it has always been, passing bamboo baskets drying pile sof red chillies out in the sun, and more often than not orange-robed monks in training going aboutt their daily duties.<br><br>We came upon our little hotel by ...

... too small for all these people to be in. A French woman, having taken a dislike to an Austrian with a tripod, stood resolutely in front of his camera, blocking his view and pointing her Kodak Instamatic at the sunset, which by now was on the verge of becoming spectacular. This caused the Austrian, who had been waiting an hour for this moment, to start swearing oaths at the woman, before finally turning to the crowd and, in English, saying "You know, I really hate you French people with ...