Liliana’s South East Asia Adventure

Hello folks, sorry haven’t written in a while.  Was not near internet.  From Chiang Mai I took a mini bus to Chiang Kong which is the border town over into Laos.  It was a 2 day trip down the mekong which was very lovely but the boat was not spacious although it was ok.  Lots of tourist.  Four o fus who where on the same pachage tour from Chiang Mai have been hanging out.  The first night on the boat we stayed at a place caleed Pak Ben which is basically a stop over place for us tourist.  You wouldn’t visit for any other reason.  After a night there we got back on the boat and headed down river again to Luang Prabang.  It is a lovely French Colonial town that was designated an UNESCO site in 1990?  Yesterday our first day in this town we took a tuk tuk driver up to som e lovely waterfalls and swam around there the four of us. I’m mostly hanging out with this nurse guy from Oregon.  He’s a traveling nurse and plans to find some work somewhere over on this side of the world for a few months.  He’s a nice guy in his early fourties.  Divorced.  The other two travels are from Denmark and Chile.  They both are in their early twenties and so they hooked up as young kids do. Will write more later tomorrow.  Need to find out how much a flight from Vientienne to Hanoi is as it seems thats the best way to get to vietnam from Laos.  Supposedly the roads are horrible and it would take ovetr 22 hours.  You could break it up.  We shall see.  If its supper expiensive to fly then I will have to take a Bus.  Thanks for your comments and please keep them coming.  I will not be away so long from a computer again.  Today took a trip to see some caves where old Buddhas are put to rest but it was boring not worth the trip.  Saw some nice buddhas but other then that you couldn’t go very far in the caves like we thought.  Next destination will either be Viang Ven or the capital for flight to Hanoi.  Will write more tomorrow its 8pm and I’m tired and hungrey.  the heat tires you out.  Ciao

So the other night I went to see the night bazzar which was fun and crazy in its own way.  Lots of crafts etc to buy if you want.  It’ts not as big as the Sunday fair but big enough.  I was a bad person and while at the night market I had humus and pits bread from a guy who’d from the middle east.  It was quit good I have to say.  So today I took a thai cooking class which was lots of fun.  It was offord through my motel.  At teh moment I’m paying $2:50 for my room no hot water though I had to move from the one I had before.  It works the beds fine and it has a fan.  To be honest you don’t need more then a fan.  Anyway back to teh cooking class.  This other girl and I took a ride over to the other hotel they own and ended up being the only ones in the class.  We got a thai cook book and everything for around $20 or 800 Bht.  We got to choose what we wanted to make and then we wne tto the market with the theacher who has been cooking for ever.  The first dish I made was green sauce with mixed vegetables.  The second was a mixed vegetable dish with some kind of soy/ mushroom sauce.  The third was vegetables with Cashew nuts.  I’m having problems up loading pictures on this blog so you will have to ckick on Yana’s Travel Pictures to see the dishes I made.  I’m sorry but at the moment I don’t have the energy to explain all the ingrediants.  Maybe in a later blog.  Well in 1 more day I will take a bus to the Loas border.  My hotel Eagle Creek or whom ever they go through will take us there, house us in a hotel for the night and then we will catch a slow boat ride down to the first stop on our way to Lou Prubang.  That is not how its spelled sorry.  So far 10 people are signed up for that bus/ package and maybe more by  tomorrow.  Well I’m going to go eat now as I’m hungry.  When I write my blogs I’m a day ahead of California time.  Right now it’s 6:40pm and in California its 3:41 AM.    I will try and call soon.  Its a sad thing but in Thailand a lot of women are with westerners and especially with older men because they have more $.  From what I’ve heard these women have thai boyfriends and they don’t care because the men have gambling debts and need the $ from the westerners.  I guess both parties are happy the thai women and the western men.  Ciao 

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