New hotel has terrace overlooking the Mekong so we have an interesting breakfast watching river traffic including a vehicle ferry made from two river boat hulls bolted together with a platform over the middle. People are tending their vegetable plots on the mud banks. We walk roung the old town and bump into the cycling friends we had said farew...

I can control the largest beasts walking the planet. Yes, not only can I cook Laos food (see previous blog) but now I know how to command elephants! Fear me! Our Mahout (what you call an elephant driver, basically) training was tremendous fun, and very ******* the groin area, what with all the sitting on hairy elephants we had to do. In Luang Pr...

We flew to Luang Prabang on May 15 and were shocked by how quiet it was. After being practically accosted by 5 tuk tuk drivers when we'd arrived to Siem Reap, it was quite a change to walk outside of Luang Prabang Airport and find no one screaming "motorbike! tuk tuk! good price!" at you. Luang Prabang is a quaint little town that has been desig...

We had a 8h boat trip via Nong Khiaw on the Namou river to reach the Mekong and Luang Prabang. It was just fantastic and the people along the river (and in the rest of Laos) are so friendly, they smile all the time. I really love it here. The city itself looks stunning with the mix of wooden houses, traditional markets, and colonial style. It is...

Day 49 - Arrived early at the bus station in Vientiane to a huge sea of people trying to buy tickets and boarding coaches - I forgot about the New Year! My tuk tuk driver wished my luck (!) and I soon discovered the next bus to Luang Prabang was full (and for the first time in Laos they weren't willing to cram everyone on into the aisle!) and th...

We stayed two nights in Luang Prabang in Northern Laos. Its a lovely place, although everywhere closes at 12 because its a religious town and they all hit the hay early to respect the monks or something. But on our first night there we were so tired from the week tubing anyway that we were more than happy to have an early night! The next day Nao...

A short connecting flight brought us to the old northern capital of Laos, Luang Prabang. We arrived at one of the smallest international airports we've ever seen and then got transfered to Villa Merry Laos Swiss, a small guest house at the base of Mount Phu Si (a mountain in the centre of town). The road along the penninsula where the Nam Kan ri...

Khao Lak 23/1/2008 Breve riassunto del periodo passato: Laetitia e' dovuta tempestivamente rientrare in Francia per seri problemi legati alla salute di suo padre. Di fronte a certi problemi non c'e' altro da fare se non sospendere tutto e dedicarcisi il piu' che si puo' nella misura delle nostre capacita'. Dopo vari ragionamenti travagliati io h...

Funny how plans change! We had planned to go north into the hills to trek into the mountains to visit the minority hill tribes, then take a slow boat down a river back to Luang Prabang, but having done it all at the village already, we felt we couldn't top it! We spent a couple more days back in Luang Prabang where we hit the markets and visited...

Hallo ihr Lieben, eines vorweg: zu meinem letzten Eintrag aus Luang Prabang gibt es nun auch einige Fotos, falls ihr sie noch nicht gesehen habt! Nachdem ich meine Sightseeing-Tour fu** heute beendet habe, habe ich jetzt genug Zeit fu** eine ausgiebige Int**net-Session. Es hat sich viel getan in d** Zwischenzeit. Mir gefaellt es hi**. Alle hi** ...