Anyway, before all this we spent a great 2 and a bt weeks traversing the incredible Laos. So at the end of the last post we were in Luang Nam Ta, a great little place, so peaceful after a week in bangkok! Now Laos was lovely, but the north is VERY hilly! We spent 9 hours on a bus that got us 250k...but it was worth it.
Luang Prabang was wicked, its a world heritage site now so hardly any development has take nplace, still has te 'old charm' we had baguettes for breakfast and some crazy hot noodle soups for dinner! Met some crazy Europeans but hada great tome, one night we were sat with 4 Germans, a Dutch couple and 2 guys from Belgium we were all speaking English with funny accents but was great, bit weird hearing them not speaking their first language but using it to talk to each other!
Then onto Vientienne where we were going to spend a few days as we had to get our Cambodian Visa, turns out it took 1 day and we got a 90 visa whichwe certainly dont need but it wa the same cost so... Vientienne was cool though, we stayed in a great little guestouse with a lovelyfamily, we bought food from the market which we took back and they gave us stuff to eat it with, we had fried fish from the Mekon, some of he est fishi've ever had and the pancakes! oh my god the pancakes! these were crazy though, folded over and then sprinkled wit sugar and condensed milk. I know sounds weird but ate 3 in a row they were that good! the belly's back!
We were kinda sad to leave but lookng forwad to the next stop, the 4000 islands. Now a lot had been said about these islands and we were eventually not dissapointed...first though we had an overnight sleeper bus, see video
and then a night in Pakse where the street chef tried to blow my face off with the Beef Laap! but we arrived safely if a little jaded on Don Khong. The big isalnd. Crap, nothing there and nothing to do. To be fair we met some lovely people but really the lonely planet let us down again...familiar story there then. Next was Don Det, a totally different story. Despite the electricity running only from 6 -11 every night, we had a great time. Hired bikes and cycled around, relaxed on the varanda, read books ate good food, Natdid a yoga class one morning, i did a cooking class and this is where we met Keifer Sutherland. Legend.
The memorial at the killing fields
The one, the only, Keifer Sutherland!
Sunset on Don Det
On top of Champask ruins outside of Pakse
The waterfall just outside Luan Prabang...so much fun
So that was Laos, we're doing our little tour of cambodia now and then heading back to thailand before our flight out to oz on the 20th december. Can't believe it's here already but i guess we've been going long enough. It kinda feels that once we hit Oz the 'travelling' is over i mean we are more like on holiday at that point before we get to korea and can move out of our rucksacks! Hope everyopne is well, Love to you all, Nick x
