Hugh and I were wandering around the more “locals” area of Luang Prabang when we came across a little cart with bags of dried bark, berries, and grasses neatly arranged on top. Small baskets had dried leaves and one contained rounded stones, a worn book on top read “Lao Traditional Medicine.” We stopped for a [...]
We’re currently stuck over what to do with our remaining time (and money). There’s so many things we can do in Luang Prabang: cooking classes, trekking, weaving classes, elephant trekking, elephant trainer courses, etc. Luckily, we can stay here for as long as we like, and actually it’s more cost effective if we do (since [...]
So, here Hugh and I were sitting in a net cafe, when four young novice monks entered the shop. They were dressed in the usual saffron-colored robes and shaved heads and eyebrows. You see these monks commonly around South-East Asia, but Hugh and I are always amazed to see them doing “normal things” like buying [...]
One of my initial reasons to come to Laos was to visit the Plain of Jars. We love mysterious ruins/monuments and the journey to find them. Going to the Jars wasn’t really much of an adventure, per se, but the Jars themselves were creepy and ethereal. There’s various legends and myths around the jars, but [...]
Since we enjoyed our last caving experience, we decided to go kayaking and caving today… and our inexperience mixed with the relative difficulty of it and a guide more interested in asking questions about English proved to be a little trickier and nerve-wracking than before. This time we were taken to the biggest cave in [...]
We just spent all day lying in a hammock on a bamboo thatched hut over the river. We periodically drank delicious pineapple and banana drinks. We watched cows walk across the river. We watched kids swim. We picked pretty rocks out of the river. I fell asleep in a big blue hammock while the wind [...]
We decided today to go on a trekking/caving tour with Green Discovery, a eco-tourism company. The trip was described as an easy trek and caving, but we were more than pleased to find out that it was alot more adventurous than it sounded. The trek was easy enough, but the caving was…well, caving. We were [...]
We went tubing down the Nam Son river today, but unlike any other tubing I’ve done anywhere else, in Laos they’ve sent up bars along the river bank so every 50 meters you float down, someone throws you a rope, pulls you in, you drink (a few) $1-$2 beers and then continue your float. Needless [...]
We took the trip from Vientiane to Vang Vieng on a local bus. Being sore from constant scamming in Thailand and Vietnam, we were stunned to actually meet helpful people who weren’t trying to secretly sneak us onto a crowded mini-bus, but were just kindly pointing which one to go to. The local bus proved [...]
Perhaps we spoke too soon, but after a few days in Vientiane I’m not as enthralled anymore. Having some tuktuk driver offer you drugs on a dark road is a little unnerving. Anyways, we leave today for Vang Vieng to do some “adventure” (or soft-adventure) travel.
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