Oh No !!!! I think my memory isn't that good anymore... I see I am really getting old. I am almost leaving Oz... and only now decided to write about Laos... so long ago! Nex time, I will try to update this site soon...
Lets stop complaining and write something...
As it was hard to get into Laos through Cambodia, I decided to go to thailand and enter Laos by boat ( 3 days trip... I thought I was drunk when I decided to do it! hahhah!) ! Oh God !
This " boat" ( if I can call it boat - I think a sardine can would be the best name to call it - it means 100 people smashed on each other for 3 days in a boat not big than a bucket !!!) trip wasn't exactly what I call a cruise... but it is what travelling is about - at least it is more fun than a cruise ( well !!! I suppose as still need to win the lottery premium to spoil myself in a cruise !) and the best idea to improve your swimming skills, in case you have foorgotten them.
The best think about the boat was that it was so small that it was the best place to make new friends... as you couldn't avoid listening other people conversation ! hahah ! It was fun, I could even start writting for a girly magazine after this trip - had enough time to learn about everybody's life!
I met a very nice group of dutch people in the boat - yuplipup! ( dutch happinees exclamation!)I will have friends to spend Christmas with !!! It was quite a relief as I was quite scared of spending Christmas alone, rejected in the middle of nowhere ! Just girls things... if you understand me ?!
After 3 days in the boat - finally got to Luang Prabang ( Peter ( Bresnan) thanks for the advise, it was really the best place to spend Christmas - you are a star!). Luang Prabang is my favourite "town" in Asia . It is so charming, and beautiful, great atmosphere and the best food ever !!!
It is so charming that all the accomodation were all booked, even high class hotels - oh no not homeless again !!! But as I am the luckiest person in the world... my friend who I had travel Cambodia with, had some friends in Luang Prabang ... so they invited me to stay with them ... they even cooked the best dinner ever for me !!!! And ... you don't know what... after being so smashed on the boat trip ... I could eat and drink as much as I wanted to get to normal sice again!!!! Oh! I cannot believe - be able to eat and drink as much as I wanted without feeling bad !!! Every girls dream!
treeking in the north - I think I should skip this part as I even don't remember the name of the place I did trekking - but as you can imagine, the best way to get there was by boat - AGAIN !!!! Oh no!
Time to go south again - back to Luang Prabang and head to Vangviang( I even don't remember the spelling!) where I spent New years - as everybody expect - drunk, dancing along the river !!! It was so much fun... although I couldn't really remember anything next day - and felt sick all the way to Vientiane .
Vangviang is like a hippie young drunk backpacker place... nothing very special to do but a nice place to rent a bike and ride around the mountains and country side and for having some water adventures ...
Vientiane is also a great place, lots of nice but expensive ( for asia) restaurants. And where I had my hair cut again and I hated it! ! i cannot wait to this hair grown again !!!
I did like Laos !!! It is a great place to relax, very friendly people !!!!