Mekong Estate Residence Luang Prabang

... pot (really hard to explain!). The soup was very delicious, especially once you added the chili paste provided. After dinner we headed to a local bar that had advertised a Halloween party. The bar was decorated with spider webs, skeletons and other Halloween paraphernalia. Very few people dressed up in costumes and those that did dressed up as lady boys (Asian men dressed as women and often mistaken for women by unsuspecting and unfortunate male tourists). At around eleven p.m. we made our ...

... to kickback, and I decided to do just that, but I would also work &#8211; to catch up with my blog writing. I found a quite acceptable room for about 8 USD a night with aircon, so my plan was set.<br><br>Like other poorer countries in the world, here in Laos is a two-tier pricing system, one for the poor locals and one for the foreigners, who are all perceived to be filthily rich. Seemed to me that in Laos the gap between these two prices are ...

Laos, it sounds sooo cool, and it is for about 18 minutes. In Luang Prabang its a quaint walkable little town. The usual buddhist temples, adorned with paper streamers. If you sit in any of the cafes on the main street or on the Mekong, you will have the vibe of the town within 18 minutes. Slow, not much to do. However ...

... times in the last 10 years and even with directions and 2 maps we had to give up after 30 minutes and check in to the first one we saw &#8211; this turned out to be a good call as it had a lovely big room with private bathroom for less than 3 quid a night. What a bargain! After a good nights sleep we headed out to explore the town.<br><br>Luang Prabang is a small town with only 25,000 residents but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in charm ...

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... the right. That piece is made into a ball and dipped into some of the dishes. It takes some skill to pick up some foods with a ball of rice, but with practice it's easily learned. We all share whatever we bought, so we get to taste a little bit of everything.<br> Today was my most successful day at the food market. Pheung and I had lunch together, she picked up some curry and some green spicy stuff. I grabbed some sun dried pork and a surprise wrapped in a banana leaf. At the ...

Eventually it was time to leave our village retreat, we were invited to join the family on their trip to Luang Prabang where they were visiting relatives. Once in Luang Prababang they insisted that we stay at their house too. In a vain effort to reciprocate their generosity we insisted on buying them ...

This small city is incredibly beautiful and charming. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and rightly so. Not only is the natural environment surrounding the city incredibly lush and mountainous, the city itself is a showcase of French Colonial architecture. The narrow cobbled streets are lined with flower bedecked balconies...I fell in love with the place! <br> <br><br>When I ...

... long for others to join him. Sivankham was still here at this stage and, along with Sisamui, Michelle and I were goaded onto the dance floor to be the first dancing falangs at the wedding. I had feared this might happen (it always does) and had been keen to avoid it. But I needn't have worried. Instead of some complex traditional dance, the dancers, paired off into males and females, faced each other in a long line and shuffled around in a dance style I have not seen since playing musical ...