KIND OF BUT NOT REALLY...
In a pillbox for six hours and I think e've all had time to take in Laos enough to translate it to you, the good working folk from around the planeta.
This party has begun, we're talking new year, and there are farang wondering the streets at this, 7:30pm (such a late hour for our newfound communist love country)
As everything, including light in most cases, is shut down by midnight, we're really trying to make the most of our days.
The odd bit is the day makes it for you.
consider our latest guest house "the otherside" (thanks keith although, it did take quite a while to seek out, the new huts they've built are shitacular.) No picture can really ammount to our backyard in this place. We back onto what I believe is called a karst, which is much akin to a mountain, but it juts out like a dagger from the earth (I considered the reasons for so many earthquakes in the region by the sheer awesome display these mountains lend to foreign eyes)
There really is so much catching up to do...and my pen can't write whilst rumbling down the rocky swaying roads from Luang Prabang to here.
To be brief...
Luang prabang was THE most beautiful city we've been to yet. and the company we've kept all the way from Chiang mai to today has been par excellence.
For anyone travelling to Southeast Asia and looking to spend only a short while, like our dear cousin Darold, we have to insist (and we would not have considered it earlier) that Laos is soo gooood! I would have bypassed Thailand almost completely for this country.
Mom, I've seen the best Waterfall in all creation. The group of us took turns singing, and diving into it's crystal pools...and that at its heighest pool some 50 meters above the bottom pool. Kuang Xi Waterfall just outside of Luang Prabang...YEAH.
I should sign off...and go get soaked in the street by another supersoaker 120000. I hope you are all wet reading this as I am writing it. If not...shower off you dirty dirties.
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE DUDES.
- posted by Combine Harvester @ 5:29 AM