After finally deciding on our next destination, Leah and I boarded an overnight bus, along with 10 Asian businessmen, loaded with the essentials...Green Tea, Rice Vodka, and of course a Disney Princess coloring book and crayons. Which we used to entertain ourselves by book light on what we expected to be a 20 hr bus ride...
Three landslides, two nights, and 36 hours later...we had finally made it to Luang Prabang, Laos!
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| Clearing one of many landslides |
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| Unidentified dinner with our busmates |
The entire city of Luang Prabang is named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so it has been extremely well preserved. The French influence is very apparent throughout the city with tons of Colonial French Architecture and baquette vendors on every corner. It is also known for the over 30 temples and 500 monks within the city. It's hard not to spot many of the small bald men dressed in orange robes strolling through the streets. Leah and I spent our first day here on a "Temple Tour" making our way to a few of the major temples in town.
On our walk back to the hostel for some much needed rest, I noticed some familiar faces looking back at me from across the street. After a few seconds, I realized it was Antony and Gemma, an amazing English couple I spent about a week with at Hak's House during my time volunteering in Cambodia. Nap time immediately went out the window, a catch up and reunion beers were in order!
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| So happy to run into them again! |
The next day all four of us headed out to the Kuang Xi Waterfall, about an hour outside of the city. This is the biggest one in the region. There are three different levels to hike up and see. There is a rope swing from a tree into the pool of the first one, which we took advantage of a few times! The top waterfall is absolutely breathtaking, the tallest we have seen yet! Unfortunately, we took all of the pictures on Leah's camera that day, and I didn't get her pictures before we parted ways. So here are some that I found on google of what we saw and did!
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The Rope Swing |
That night I met up with some friends we had met and headed out for some old fashioned bowling. I was absolutely terrible, but we had a lot of fun!
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| Fellow American with the Bald Eagle ball |
We really enjoyed our relaxing couple of days here. We needed the rest to get us ready for our next stop...Vang Vieng!!
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