Luang Prabang
We arrive in Luang Prabang at around 5pm and I head off to find a cheap room. Multiple people approach me with ten dollar rooms with private baths and hot water. I just want a place to store my things and sleep. I see a sign advertising “room available” and ask the young man at the desk how much it was. He says “go look first.” I say “how much is it.” He says “you want to go look.” I say “well how much is it?” He says “I’m sorry, but we are all full.” I say “that’s fine” and leave.
As I’m walking down the same road with my pack on another guy comes up on a moto saying he had a nice room for 70,000 kip, about eight dollars. I say I want to walk and he walks with me the three or four blocks to the place. He have a pleasant conversation along the way. Looking at the room it didn’t have a window, so I declined it. The nice smile then disappeared off his face and he was a bit rude so I left.
A woman then approaches me with another ten dollar room. I say I can get one for 8000 kip, about nine dollars and she agrees to it. The room is nice and big with a working fan, clean sheets, a clean bathroom, a towel, two bars of soap, and a new roll of tp. I take it.
