Laos is fast becoming one of my favorite countries that we've visited in South East Asia...we have spend a very interesting, chilled out couple of days in the former imperial capital of Luang Prabang before making the (once again fairly hidious) bus trip down to the backpacker haven of Vang Vieng...
Our days in LP were spent exploring caves hauntingly filled with ancient and discarded budda images, crazy temple caves which you can only walk in with a torch, the light picking up thousands of little budda statues in the far reaching corners...before diving into the clear blue waters of a swimming hole under a waterfall...freezing water straight from the mountains massaging my shoulders as i stood under the stream of water...bliss...
The nights have been spent eating and drinking with some Spanish friends that we originally met early on in Vietnam and randomly ran into again in LP...for a few days we will follow much the same backpacker trail through Laos and it's been fun to hang out with this group - a laugh a minute. We have sat outside in the warm evening air by the river drinking Beer Laos and barbequeing our own meat at our tables before heading to a wine bar to allow the Spanairds to experience the heaven that is a full bodied Australian shiraz...
Vang Vieng is quite a different scene from Luang Prabang...its all about cocktail buckets and tubing down the river, dropping into riverside bars on the way for a beer before finishing the day lounging in bars watching Friends re-runs. It's not exactly a typical 'Laos' experience, but fun for a few days...for hanging out with other backpackers and exchanging stories and anecdotes...tonight we will meet up with the spanairds again for some buckets of our own and tomorrw will try the famous tubing...
All too soon we will be leaving South East asia and moving on to China. It seems quite strange as we have been here so long - we have made a lot of friends on the backpacker circuit and have become quite used to everything that is Indochina...but all good things come to an end and China will be another adventure all together...
Stay tuned...xx
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