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| Dublin - Bangkok - Luang Prabang (17.11 - 23.11) |
| 11.23.04 (2:43 am) [edit] |
Hi all! It took us a while to post our first "real" blog as we were on the road most of the time and we couldn't access our blog yesterday, but here we are!
After an uneventful flight with Qantas from Dublin to Bangkok via London we stayed in Bangkok for one night in a pretty weird multistorey hotel. The next day we took an overnight bus to Chiang Khong, a village at the border with Laos. We were the only foreigners in the bus and everybody was looking at us with amazement :-). We were also the last to get out of the bus as noone else was going all the way to Chiang Khong as it seems :-). The journey took 15 hours instead of 13 but we managed to make it in time for the slow boat to Luang Prabang. We arrived in Chiang Khong, took a tuk-tuk to the immigration office and ferry crossing point, we had our passports stamped and did the 2 minute boat ride accross the Mekong from Chiang Khong in Thailand to Huay Xai in Laos. There we went to the immigration office to get our visas on arrival issued and we also bought the ticket for the slow boat to Luang Prabang. We boarded the slow boat together with another 30 or so travellers and we were on our way to Luang Prabang a trip that lasted 2 days and 1 night. We stayed overnight in Pakbeng, a tiny village in Laos, where we had our first shock with a room that seemed dreadful in the beginning but it was OK in the end (the mother of all spiders in the bathroom etc :-) ). The next morning we took off for the 2nd and last day of the trip to L.P. A French guy on the boat arranged for it to stop at the Pak Ou caves, two caves with loads and loads of Buddhas in all sizes and postures! Finally at around 5pm on Sunday evening we arrived in L.P. We went straight to the place where Micha & Martin stayed on their visit. It's a nice place guys indeed! :-) For 2 days now we are just wandering around visiting the different Wats (temples) around the city and sampling the really nice food and e x c e l l e n t Lao coffee. We just sent some back home :-). Today we also rent a bicycle and did a nice tour in the city, by the Mekong. Luang Prabang is a really nice and laid back place, we like it a lot! However we already have to face the first glitch in our trip: we cannot go to Vientiane as we were planning to, because there is an all-Asian conference going on at the moment, so they do not allow any tourists in the city until the 2nd of December! Crazy! So, we will go to Phonsavan instead, another small village in Laos, where we will also visit the "Plain of Jars" and then make our way to Vietnam by bus from there. More on this in our next blog :-).
Read Vassilis' version in the next blog :-)
Pinelopi :D
PS: We will hopefully have some photos next time, USB is not working on any PC in this Internet cafe :-(
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