Villa Santi Luang Prabang

... trek, but soon after our guide picked us up, we discovered that it'd just be the two of us. Trekking in Laos is a fairly new endeavor, and with it being low season, participation is low. At first we were disappointed not to have some more people to chat up, but ultimately it ended up working out just fine just the two of us. Our guide was nice, but didn't speak much English. We started the trek with about three hours of low intensity hiking - lots of flat, dry ground, although we did ...

Took a trip to Kuang sii waterfall just near Luang Prabang, i felt at peace with the world here, just the sound of the water falling is almost hypnotic - just sat by a tree in the water and was completely relaxed (even the fish biting my feet like the fish spa couldn't distract me)<br>Many people were jumping in the water fall going off rope swings (normally me) but i was so content just being there.<br><br>On the tuk tuk on the way back put siqor ros on my ipod to remain chilled.

... a straight line despite all obstacles. Sometimes dung beetles will try to steal the dung ball of anoth** beetle, so the dung beetles have to move rapidly away from a dung pile once they have rolled their ball to prevent it from being stolen. Dung beetles can roll up to 50 times their weight.<br><br><br> <br>(photo from the Int**net)<br><br>The dung beetles roll and bury a dung ball eith** for food storage or for making a brooding ball. In ...

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... as a guest, but no one has funded this so I won&#8217;t be able to go. Instead, I purchased books to hand out to kids in local villages. As a teacher, when I thought about setting up my classroom the first thing I thought about was buying books. But in Laos, they don&#8217;t have books or have money to buy books. So this company sets up a small library within each village to help introduce kids to reading. <br><br>Today I woke up at 4am to ...

Muang Ngoi, January 17th<br><br>In Luang Prabang we took Ian's advice and sought out Coldriver Guesthouse. We were taken there in a battered tuk-tuk and given a warm welcome by the proprietress Sivankham (a kind of Lao Aretha Franklyn lookalike, in the best possible sense) and her husband Sisamui. Situated next to the Nam Khan, just before it joins the Mekong, the guesthouse consists of several rooms in the family house. At all times an extended family wandered around the place and we ...