The View Pavilion Luang Prabang

... up and read some story books to local children, and I was looking forward to this. It took us a while to find the place, but when we eventually did, we discovered that apparently the only available window is 9-11am every morning; as we had arrived at midday, we were shunned. Realistically, the kids should have stopped their school work and marvelled as the intellectual English heroes arrived to save them from the ...

... open between the driver and the co-driver, has no head rest, and no leg space (and a stick shift where my legs could go). At first I thought, c'mon, you've travelled in Africa and basically sat on people's laps for hours on end, you'll be fine. But 7 hours was a loooong time. The annoying Korean guy in the co-drivers seat to my right apparently had a big ego and needed lots of room for his tiny Asian legs, so all the while we were ...

... of Ban Tabak, home to around 47 families and many pigs, goats, dogs and cats, not to mention the chickens running amok. There we spent the night in one of the local homes on surprisingly comfortable mattresses on the floor under mosquito nets. Our next destination was the border, where we said Goodbye Laos, Good Morning Vietnam (bet that one’s never been used before), but that story will have to keep for another day….

... the Tour du Lao, which had started in Vientiane a few days before. It was a bit away from the main tourist bit so we were the only non-locals to be seen. The race itself didn't seem to be that tight – only 3 cyclist went by in the space of 20mins – but it was nice to see the whole town out in their traditional outfits and waving flags. Han had a brief altercation with a police man when she stepped off the footpath to walk by ...

... br>John and Kerri (our friends we met in Tibet arrived) so we went out for my birthday meal and had pizza!!<br><br>Lovely day had by me:)<br><br>We met a really cute black kitten last night who wanted to follow us to our room, but after the cat peeing on my bed in Tibet incident - we kicked him out!!<br> <br>All is good, hope all is well at home.<br><br>Thank you for all my messages and ecards!! They were great:)<br><br>Love lots<br><br>C++<br>

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... was such a good atmosphere, and the weather was beautiful, the hottest in a while so far on our travels. A funny sight was the amount of umbrellas being used by Laos people to shield themselves from the sun, it reminded us of a rainy day back in London.<br> <br>There were plenty of pubs offering big drinking promotions to the passing falang and we decided to sample some Lao Lao (rice whiskey) cocktails in the Lao Lao Garden pub. They weren't the nicest and ...

... to keep volleyballs from going down into a ravine that feeds into the Nam Khan. Well lit, good net, good size, and good music. The restaurant uses bomb shells for decoration, compliments of us. I read the other day that we dropped $2,000,000 worth in bombs on Laos every day for 9 years straight. Crazy huh? They used one big airplane bomb as a BBQ pit. They cut it in half, longways, and put it on legs. A grate over the top and voila, a pit. They had another big ...

... Then i was shown the photo of these amazing falls that they were so adamantly describing! '****!' was my only word, as the transport was allready pulling away from my missed landmark and back to town! There was much banter (at my expense) over that one! <br> The rest of the time i got to check out Luang Prabang and i was not disappointed. A very charming town and lots of culture and more temples than you can care to visit. But the main fun was of ...

... nice here... but there are more tourist here than we have seen in the past 3 months combined (and for once in my life- im not even exaggerating). weve been spending the hot, sweaty days finding refugee in beautiful temples scattered all over town, chatting to monks about "the bad mr. bush" (as one called him), eating the most incredible food ive had in years, and getting $3 massages that make you feel like a king/ queen, and of ...