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Luang phrabang Hiya Everyone! Dury and I are currently in Luang Prabang, in Laos! Since writing last time, we caught the bus from Chiang Mai to ChiangRai and stayed a couple of nights there. Chiang Rai didn't really seemto be anything special. Just a smaller and less nice Chiang Mai really.We were staying at the Mae Hong Son Guesthouse which was nice itself,but backed onto what looked like the Chiang Rai council estate! Bitshady! But we were ok. I was glad to leave though and make the journey to Laos. We got a 4 anda half hour bus to Chang Kong, but literally just jumped in a tuk-tukand told him to take us to the immigration office immediately. The'friendly and helpful' guy at immigration stamped our visa and sent usdown the road where there were loads of tiny long-tail boats waiting.We thought we must have missed something because surely we wouldn'tcross the river in one of those?! But then we saw a little hut with adesk, the woman sold us a ticket each and pointed to a boat! So wehopped in a crossed the river! That was pretty cool. At the other side,at Haoxyai, we got our visa and found a guesthouse for the night. Even that night in Houxyai was really different from Thailand! Everyoneis really laid back and everything seems to move much slower. From Houxyai the next morning, we went down to the boat dock and gotour tickets for the slow-boat to Luang Prabang. The trip takes twodays, with a stopover in Pakbeng. There is a speed boat but apparentlypeople have died on that so we chose to take the slow boat. Still can'tdecide whether that was even a good choice! The seats were tiny woodenbenches with straight backs and a tiny little cushion. You would havethought the boat was full but then about 50 more people came down thehill and all got on. There weren't enough seats so people just had tosit where there was a space! In the end, most of us moved our benchesto the side and sat down on the floor too cos it was much more comfythat way. The first day was actually pretty cool. The scenery wasamazing, a group got a guitar out, people were chilling on the sides ofthe boat and everyone was in a pretty good mood. By the end of thesecond day though, I was pretty glad to get off. It was an EVEN SMALLERboat on the second day and the benches were attached so we couldn'tmove them aside. Finally arriving at Luang Prabang was a relief and I really like ithere. It's like no other city in the world. It's just like a bigvillage, or loads of villages all together. There's one main street,they nickname 'Ferang Road' (foreigner road or something) with lots ofrestaurants and shops on. The end of the street turns into a nightmarket in the evening which was really cool! We went last night and itwas really different from Chiang Mai. All the people are reallyfriendly and smiling and not pushing you to buy their stuff which issuch a relief after Thailand which is all about hassling you to buystuff! On the first day we went out with a couple of girls staying atour guesthouse to the waterfalls nearby which was pretty cool. We didsome swimming and some jumping in! That night, we also enjoyed a burgerat the Lao Lao Garden which is a cool restaurant on another road.Getting sick of veg and rice, tofu and rice or veg and tofu, a veggieburger and fries was definitely a good shout! Today we went up Phu SiMountain and looked over the Mekong River which was pretty awesome.Couldn't take any photots though cos both our cameras have brokenwithin a week of each other! Boo. Tomorrow we are leaving for Vientiene to organise our visas for Vietnamand then will maybe go back up to Vang Vieng or go down to the FourThousand Islands. So far, we're undecided. Anyway, hope everyone is having a good summer back at home. Missing you Love Naomi XXXXX Source : Travelblog For more information , please visit these websites: Email: [email protected], Active Travel Laos Adventure tours in Laos: Bike in Luang Phrabang / Kayak in Vang Vieng / Trek in Luang Nam Tha Article Tags: Luang Prabang, Pretty Cool
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