Hotel De Lyon Luang Prabang

... first up and the obvious winners one clearly with me as top scorer, god knows how i'm **** at skittles. The losing team had to do a shot of this lao lao rocket fuel whiskey. Next up we miexed the teams up and battled it out again, this time i was 3rd and had to do a shot which finished me off ! We all grabbed a tuk tuk home and called it a night.

... off their wriggling legs, the floor a mess of broken shells and discarded limbs. <br><br> The country&#8217;s war-ravaged and turbulent history can seem at odds with its calm and tranquil character, but reminders of the past persist and can suddenly bring the less peaceful times much closer to home. Unexploded ordnance, primarily cluster bombs, is a huge problem in certain areas. It is estimated that more bombs were ...

... nowadays and at the end of one side of town is a nightly street market selling crafts and whatnot but in a very non-pushy way. On the other side of that is a food hawkers corner where we had dinner each night. 5000 kip got you a buffet plate of rice/noodles/veg and another 12,000 kip got you a lovely leg of chicken &#8211; all washed down with a 10,000 kip Beer Lao &#8211; which is one of the better beers we've had along the way.<br>On ...

... and that was lovely too!<br> <br>The night market is the most peaceful i have come across in Asia...... No hassle, just stunning products at really reasonable prices... and they dont seem to quote stupid prices!! Yay - i have found asian heaven!<br> <br>Luang Prabang has the lovely feel of Vietnam "same same but different".<br> <br>Simon is sending his application for teacher training today so fingers crossed. I think he will be interviewed from ...

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... clothes (traditional) etc. If we weren't travelling light I would be bringing back so much stuff with me.<br><br>We both had curries for dinner which were delicious, Mark has even developed a taste for whiskey, chased with Beer Lao, of course!<br><br>Off to bed now, hopefully to wake up to soooo many presents from Mark for my birthday (haha).<br><br>Nighty night!<br>xx

... being there with 11 people that I know would have surely forced me into partaking in the activities to be had there. I've been taking it easy since Vientiane. Wes nearly killed me, I'm glad to have made it out of Vientiane alive. Haha. So now there are about 11 people left in the hostel. Some really great guys and a girl from London, a woman from Sac-town, California, a guy from Tennessee that is teaching English in Japan, and a few others that I haven't gotten ...

... my time exploring the city on foot. I loved to watch the bare-footed Buddhist monks move silently in their saffron robes, and gradually found myself sitting down with them under the shade trees. Like many Laotians, they invited me to join them, as they were eager to practice their faltering English - I almost felt useful again, and that contributed a lot to my healing journey. Even better was the day that I stumbled upon &#8220;Big ...

... dull for the effort and cost involved! Also we visited a very beautiful set of waterfalls. They were very much worth the 40 minute ride out of town. The waterfalls were staggered in sections/tiers up a hill and the colour of the water was an amazing turquoise. Having thought i'd seen all of what the falls had to offer, i decided to go back down to the bottom for a cuppa . Some of the others, un-beknown to me, had gone further up the track ...

... a little retreat from the car horns for a little while. we spent a good week here.. i read my first john irving book (alicia, which was really weird - incest and death being the main themes.. yet enjoyable and funny, and now im on the hunt for another irving novel...). While here, we kept busy, kayaking up the river to a secluded village, hiking to a few nearby villages and a large, scary cave, and eating lots of banana ...