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Travel Blogs from Luang Prabang
Monks, monasteries and unexploded mines
... but then we all became a bit nervous about the likelihood of the engine not starting again.
It did and after five of the most uncomfortable hours of our lives we approached the lovely town of Luang Prabang. Our trials weren’t over yet however. To get from the boat to the road involved slithering over the muddy riverbank with our bags and then ascending a ridiculously steep and long set of steps. After the rains these were covered in sticky red ...
Beautiful Luang Prabang
... of a lady who just had an accident on her motorbike with her tiny son and daughter. I see first and call to the others while the bike is lifted off the kids and the mum tries to stand the little girl up but she wont and is screaming. Vic and the other boys rush to take the wrecked bike to the side of the road and we ask Mr La to take her and her kids to hospital. We drive them there and the poor little girl is very distressed an has had a bad hit of her head. ...
The big chill!
... the lights and boats would be floated down the Mekong!! Hurrah!! What luck!! By this point it was already 3:30pm and we wanted to make sure we got a good spot to view the action so we popped home for a quick shower and change and headed out to find our seats for the evening along Mekong.. The atmosphere around town was really alive and buzzing. Kids (literally under 10!) were letting off enormous bangers ...
Where the rivers meet
After being dropped off in the outskirts of Luang Prabang, we were both a little dazed as having just woken up. Trying to haggle in tens of thousands of Kips for a ride into town was a bit of fun but we managed to get 5 of us from the bus on a Tuk Tuk to a similar area in town for a reduced price - 20,000 kips each (£1.50). Lucky to have anyone there to be honest at 4:30am when we arrived, but we assumed guest houses would be ...
Luang Prabang - You'll Leave a Little Richer
... orphan kids his boss is helping to be sent to their sponsors. He cares about grammar and asked a ton of questions back. And he was particularly cautious in not wanting to change the intended meaning.
He knew all the monks - he could tell us which wat each group of monks came from and knew when they all had passed. One night quite late, a couple backpackers arrived and no rooms were available. ...