Nam Khan Villas Resort Luang Prabang

... However, we got to town just before dark and went in search of our guesthouse we had booked in Chiang Mai. The transfer we had booked wasn't there and when we eventually got to the guesthouse, neither was the booking! I don't quite know what went wrong but we eventually got a room and what a room! Considering the shed we had last time for $15 we got a palace. The room was spotless and had teo four poster beds in it. It was ...

... nice stuff including a very Pimp Cane in<br>the Dogfather style.<br>Every Morning from 5:30am to 6:ooam the Monks from the local<br>monastery, held a procession down the main road so the people could<br>fill there bowls with food and money, and for the three days that I<br>stayed their I tried to rise to see this phenomenon, but each day I<br>was defeated from the after effects of late night Bowling, not that I<br>am any good, or even like Bowling, but the ...

... bikes and loading them onto the roof-rack, we commenced a twenty minute journey up and down the windy mountainous terrain that Mark and I had traversed earlier. Eventually, we were dropped off at the market in Luang Prabang, and after paying our recalcitrant driver his rip-off fee, made the short walk back to the hostel. In the evening, me, Mark and Susan decided to go to the night market for dinner. We found a brilliant vegetarian food stall selling all manner of rice, noodle ...

... other tourists. It was about 45 minutes ride out to the waterfalls, which were amazing! There were some nice people in that group, a few French speaking Canadian girls who were sharing part of their travels (one was going home soon, the others still had a year in Australia upcoming), and a nice English boy who was going to travel in Brazil after this. <br><br> The waterfalls were really beautiful, and you could walk all the way up, past ...

Well we tried to map each place between Luang Prabang and here and for some reason, Google earth doesn't have any towns between our first and last stop. So this is really just an over view of Laos. Again pix will have to follow as the internet connection is very slow and I cant put many up at a time.<br><br>Anyway, I won't bore you so I'll keep it short. :) Luang Prabang was really nice. Its all about the temples and monks there but to ...

... dog here and they seem to treat the strays really well. Nobody kicks them of shoos them away aggressively. The animals on the whole are shy and are very wary of people only coming over if you beckon them. I gave a group of tourists at the next table a dirty look when one of them tried to kick away a heavily pregnant cat, who was sat half a metre away from them. I then proceed to explain to Tom in a loud enough voice so the group could hear "You know that the reason why ...

... and glances ov** to me, and then the one of the men ran off to find me a box. OK, they don't want one more, I thought, I'll take him back and try to find someone to keep him. Well, something got lost in translation because the next thing I knew they w**e putting all 3 kittens into the box. It nev** fails&#8230; I came to drop off one kitten but instead ended up with 3! I carted the box back to my office and the kittens became great ent ...

... wandered around the town, had lunch on the river, had a massage, read a book and generally chilled out big time.<br><br>The following day we hired a motorbike and burned up the mountain to some AMAZING waterfalls. The best I have ever seen in my life. The only way to get there was by a boat up the river which was a cool journey in itself. When we got to the falls our clothes quickly came off and we jumped into the icy cold water of the ...

... even the beginning pictures I have of the monks collecting ums weren't good. Luckily there are many Wats in Luang Prabang. Since Luang Prabang is a must stop destination for people traveling through Laos, in restaurants, businesses and guest houses they have signs up about what not to do when you see a monk. That is to stare at them, block them from their paths, talking to them, pretty much being an annoying tourist. There ...

... We all duly shook the sticks and pocketed the small squares of encoded paper - something which I came to regret dreadfully in the near future.<br><br>But we didn't need to leave the city to entertain ourselves. The temples of Luang Prabang are of such astounding beauty that I'm not even going to try to describe them. The atmosphere within the wat enclosures, scattered with quiet monks and blossoming bougainvillaea, is calming and conducive to reflection. Not all people feel this ...