Wat That Guest House Luang Prabang

... travelling. Had some nice Laos food some beers and went to bed.

17th September
In the morning we went on a boat trip to the caves. The boat was a typical Laos boat, absolutely tiny and very long and as always didn't look safe enough to be on a large, incredibly fast flowing river! We got there by travelling along the banks only crossing the river at full speed. The caves were a little disappointing as they were just large caves with hundreds of statues of Buddha's ...

... to rip them off, it became quite comical after a while!

Yesterday we did the most outrageous thing yet! Fed up of local transport and buses that take 30hours (no exaggeration) to get somewhere, we have brought a Minsk Motorbike!
We are going to drive it down to VangVieng after we've finished here, then along to Hanoi in Vietnam, and cycle the whole length of Vietnam, from north to south!!! We are both really excited! We went for a little cycle on it last night, and ...

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... the locals love it. Someone explained it to me that they don't have any formal sports here like baseball teams or other sports teams, so this is huge to them.

After the boat race I went to the local book store and traded in some books and got some new ones. I started reading one, “The Time Travelers Wife” .I spent most of the following day reading it. I wanted to find quiet beautiful places around Luang Prabang where I ...

... and the wall and clap me feet together like an orangutan to get them off. This drew some laughter, but they had no idea what was going on down there. Luckily the ants weren't of the biting type. I finally got the ball and threw it to another guy that came to help. I made it out with minor scratches.
The locals left after that and then it was just the hostel folk left to play. We slapped the ball around for a while when another group of backpackers showed up. We ...

... of buying anything by Jane Austen or Leonard Malton’s 1999 guide to movies on video. This pretty much left my options to either Danielle Steele or The Atkins Diet. Then on the bottom shelf I encountered something I never would have expected to find in a used bookstore in northern Laos. I reached down and picked up a copy of “Ghost Rider:Travels on the Healing Road” by Neil Peart. Neil Peart, the drummer for the Canadian band Rush grew up in the same city as I did and ...

... didn't lock Just a bit wrong really. Quickly assembled mosquito nets to try and create a barrier between us and pure filth, discarded all sheets, bloodstained or otherwise and replaced them with sleeping bag liner (oh liner how i love thee). Then went to find our free dinner down the road. It was, again, rice. So pretty much ate what i could, then stole as much pineapple from the buffet as possible (my fruit-fly tendencies are definitely being fulfilled with all these yummy exotic ...

... nice pair of shapeless traditional 'fishing' trousers (which didn't fit her or probably anyone bar Kate Moss aged 6), another "silk" scarf - yeh right - and a cute little t-shirt that said "sabadee" in the Laotian alphabet, which means "hello". It's a lovely little word because everyone here always smiles when they say it ...

... of which have dwindled to near extinction levels in Laos over the last fifty years, and the cage was provided by the UK charity Care For The Wild. They were trying to raise money to build a large natural enclosure for the tiger (with space for two others), who cannot be returned to the wild as she cannot hunt and would again be in danger from wildlife traders whose profits are exceeded only by the opium barons. We donated some money to the officials for upkeep (enough to buy a few ...