Luang Prebang
Breakfast again from out lovely sandwich seller. Yesterday we had the mixed fruit shake, which tasted mostly of dragonfruit and banana, and was bright pink thanks to the dragon fruit! Today I really wanted to try the oreo and banana shake, but couldn't quite bring myself to have it for breakfast.
In the afternoon I went off for my prebooked trip to the waterfalls, only to find the tour office I'd booked with the day before suspiciously locked. A common scam, I thought, annoyed that I'd been caught out. However, the guy who I'd booked with appeared from nowhere and returned my deposit saying that there weren't enough people. So, I got my money back but was in the slight predicament that this was my last afternoon here and I really wanted to see the waterfalls!
Walking a few metres down the road however, I managed to find a few others who wanted to go so we chartered a tuk-tuk. An hour later and rather sore from the bumpy Lao raods and the bars of the cage of the jumbo/tuk-tuk digging into my back, we arrived at Kuong Si waterfalls. Immediately the air was fresher, and trekking towards the noise we found a series of small (1-2m) falls. There was also a cage full of bears lolling around in hammocks and suchlike.
Carrying on up I found the main event - falls with a huge drop. Unfortunately most of the higher walkways seem to have been washed away (presumably seasonally) and the upper path was closed. So, after taking a few pics, I went for a swim in one of the pools under the waterfall. A cold, but very refreshing experience, and all the time with that awesome waterfall noise and the spray.
Post-swimming I was pretty hungry, and so visited the night market for dinner one last time for some vegetarian food. I wimped out of the banana and oreo shake (as well as the delicacy they have here of half hatched eggs which I think they boil - eurgh) and had a lemon and mango one. Nice, but I didn't realise they would put a whole lemon into the blender, which made the taste quite rind-ish.
Back to the hostel to pack - I'm hoping for a generally landslide free journey tomorrow. Witnessed two motorbikes crash right in front of the jumbo today. Not nice, bits of motorbike flying everywhere, and someone in our vehicle swears one of the drivers lost a toe or so.
Breakfast again from out lovely sandwich seller. Yesterday we had the mixed fruit shake, which tasted mostly of dragonfruit and banana, and was bright pink thanks to the dragon fruit! Today I really wanted to try the oreo and banana shake, but couldn't quite bring myself to have it for breakfast.
In the afternoon I went off for my prebooked trip to the waterfalls, only to find the tour office I'd booked with the day before suspiciously locked. A common scam, I thought, annoyed that I'd been caught out. However, the guy who I'd booked with appeared from nowhere and returned my deposit saying that there weren't enough people. So, I got my money back but was in the slight predicament that this was my last afternoon here and I really wanted to see the waterfalls!
Walking a few metres down the road however, I managed to find a few others who wanted to go so we chartered a tuk-tuk. An hour later and rather sore from the bumpy Lao raods and the bars of the cage of the jumbo/tuk-tuk digging into my back, we arrived at Kuong Si waterfalls. Immediately the air was fresher, and trekking towards the noise we found a series of small (1-2m) falls. There was also a cage full of bears lolling around in hammocks and suchlike.
Carrying on up I found the main event - falls with a huge drop. Unfortunately most of the higher walkways seem to have been washed away (presumably seasonally) and the upper path was closed. So, after taking a few pics, I went for a swim in one of the pools under the waterfall. A cold, but very refreshing experience, and all the time with that awesome waterfall noise and the spray.
Post-swimming I was pretty hungry, and so visited the night market for dinner one last time for some vegetarian food. I wimped out of the banana and oreo shake (as well as the delicacy they have here of half hatched eggs which I think they boil - eurgh) and had a lemon and mango one. Nice, but I didn't realise they would put a whole lemon into the blender, which made the taste quite rind-ish.
Back to the hostel to pack - I'm hoping for a generally landslide free journey tomorrow. Witnessed two motorbikes crash right in front of the jumbo today. Not nice, bits of motorbike flying everywhere, and someone in our vehicle swears one of the drivers lost a toe or so.
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