Night Market Luang Prabang
As I’m wondering around looking for food I run into Kylie again. She’s looking for a particular trekking company and we go there together. Shew wants to book a rock climbing trip and it turns out to be $47 for one person, or $28 each for two persons. I told her I would think about it and we go have dinner overlooking a darkened Mekong River.
We then walk the night market with mat after mat of fabrics and silver bracelets. The scarves look to be very good quality and I teach Kylie how to bargain and buy in South East Asia. As I predicted, she got several things at about fifty percent of the asking price. We then head back to the trekking shop where we book the trip. The price is quoted in dollars of which I was short, so I ask for it in Thai baht. He quotes me one thousand baht, about thirty three dollars. I say this is too much and doesn’t equate to the amount of twenty-eight dollars. He says I can pay him in dollars tomorrow.
Unfortunately my very short experience here has been rather poor. I find the people to be greedy and unkind. Hopefully this is not true of the rest of the nation.
