The Chang Inn Luang Prabang

... up just before sunrise to start working. Soon he produced a journal which had a map of the world drawn on the first page.Many of the visitors to his home had indicated on the map where they were from as well as written a short message of thanks to him and his family for their hospitality. We added our names to the map as well as wrote thank you messages. Tired and not sure exactly how to spend the rest of the evening in the dark, we headed up to our mosquito covered mats on the second ...

A long, twisty, car-sick inducing coach ride brought us to the most relaxed city in the whole of SE Asia. Having visited four years before with Beth and Oggie I was eager to see how it had changed. Previously, we had hopped over from Thailand for a short five day break from our bridge building and English teaching in Leepar village. It was heavenly. We hadn't eaten bread or cheese for a month and so relished the French influence on the cuisine.<br><br>Ian and I weren't ...

After visiting the beautiful and atmospheric Luang Prabang our next three days were spent in an elephant sanctuary.<br><br>Thankfully our journey from Luang Prabang to the elephant sanctuary was one of the shortest of the trip so far. Only a 30mins ride in a people carrier into the wilderness of the Laos jungle. Our first impressions of the sanctuary were excellent; we were to stay in some of the nicest accommodation of the entire trip. We had a jungle ...

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... und um Laos urspruenglich kennen zu lernen, ist Tha Kaek sehr geeignet. Auch Luang Prabang besitzt Charme, aber ist leider zu touristisch fuer uns.<br><br>Uebrigens, drei der Schwimmer, die wir trainieren durften, nehmen sogar an den Sea Games teil (siehe Bild) :-)<br>Und auch die laotische Airline ist nicht ganz so schlecht wie ihr Ruf. Wir hatten trotz Propellerflugi einen smoothen Flug nach Hanoi :-)

... have been rice spirit but in the event turned out to be Johnny Walker Red Label. A small cardboard shrine covered with shiny paper had been erected on a table at the entrance and we placed envelopes into it through a slit in the roof. Sivankham had made us the envelopes and cards, each with a personalised greeting, into which we placed some money as a wedding gift. Our card said it was from Mr Jason and Mrs Michelle. As we filed past the wedding party we nopped each other. Nopping ...