Luang Prabang, Laos
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Luang Prabang, Laos.
We’ve been in Luang Prabang now for a week, and lately we’ve been so busy that I haven’t had any time to blog (or upload pictures which takes forever here since the internet connection is pretty slow). I feel like whenever I go a long time without writing I forget to write about things or everything just gets all rushed and blurred together. This probably won’t be any exception since we’ve done so much the past week, but I’ll do my best.
We left Muang Ngoi on Steve’s birthday last Friday (December 5th). He turned 24, and we wanted to do something special for the day, but since we’d underestimated the amount of kip we’d need for being stranded without banks or ATMs for a while we had to hit the road or not eat. So for Steve’s birthday we traveled, which seems pretty appropriate for the trip. The boat ride out from Muang Ngoi was pretty and nice. The bus trip to Luang Prabang wasn’t bad, but it was long and not as pretty as the bus ride from Odomxai to the river. We were also a little scrunched since the seat we chose in the minivan was meant for three people but they shoved us and two other local people back there, so it was a lot of trying to rearrange limbs and butts and general discomfort. But we arrived safely, got our first tuk tuk into town and managed to eat lunch with our last few thousand kip.
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