PS: I refuse to take credit or blame for this message. All of it was composed by Paulina while I filled out my invaluable student loan application without which I would not be able to afford to travel. Hence, although seemingly nice and concise the blog this time round was not given it's justice since Paulina as usual spent the first hour writing to all her friends (she must love all you guys dearly - appreciate it - my friends don't get this special attention :o) ) and then quickly scribbled down a bunch of facts for the blog. Well - at least now I know where her priorities lie.
After the Kayaking tour we're off to Phonsavan, then to Vang Vieng and by June 17th to Vientiene. Haven't burned any more photos so can't post anything new - maybe out of Vang Vieng or Vientienne. Till then.
Luang Prabang June 9, 2005
So we made it to Laos, the border officials thought we are no real threat and not only issued us a Lao visa but also let us into thier country!
After a very very long journey that began in Kunming. After 36 hours on the road we arrived in Nong Khiaw, wet, tired, cold and very hungry. Our bus was suppose to leave at 3:30 but left at 5, we had a 2.5 hour dinner stopover?!?!, broken tire, broken road (construction) basically everything that could have gone wrong did.
So our first encounter with the friendly Lao creatures was when the lady of our guesthouse opened our room. A friendly bat flew out, when we returned from our dinner the friendly bat was joined by his whole family and were flying around the hallway just outside our room. So to enter out room we had to duck down every time the bat family flew by which was basically every 30seconds.
The next day we caught a boat ride that was suppose to leave at 9 but left at 11:30 (do you see a trend here..) to Nong Khiaw. Its a cute little village where we relaxed, swam in the river and did some easy treking to local caves and villages. After two nights we headed to Luang Prabang on a 7 hour boat ride. However the real adventure was getting into the boat as it was pouring buckets and we had to climb down a very slippery and steep slope to the river's edge. The casulaty rate was 30% and Kasia was one of them, I am proud to say that I kept both feet on the ground.
So now we are in Luang Prabang. We woke up bright and early (5am) to see the monks. Before 11 this morning we visited a temple, the royal palace grounds and had breakfast. Not a bad tempo. After lunch we went to see the Tak Kuang Si Falls where I unexpectantly swam in my clothes again. I say unexpectantly because I was not planning to join Kasia under the falls but slipped in anyways (what you do for a picture). I have been paying everyone with very soggy money but people don't seem to mind just look at me funny, quite use to that already. Tomorrow we set out on a two day trek/kayaking trip where I asure everyone we will both have our bathing suits. So wish us luck and we will keep you posted on the results.
Paulina & Kasia
>From: "Paulina Bak" <
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>To:
kaska_k@hotmail.com>Subject: Post #7 Luang Prabang author: Paulina
>Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:13:22 -0700
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