14/12/2006
We decided to have a more touristy day today, since we didn’t do much of the sight seeing since we left Thailand, I think it was because we had stopped caring and gotten into the real Laos lifestyle of just chilling out. We booked a day tour which was made up of two parts, the morning which was to see the Tham Pha Tok cave which housed many statues of buddha which were being abandoned.
It was along the edge of the Mekong and we had taken a nice boat ride across. We then went to two villages, the Whisky Village and the Paper making village – it was really tourist driven and I highly doubt that they were genuine villages. Sure enough we saw them making whisky and paper, but it was crap to see because we knew this wasn’t a traditional village, it was a ‘traditional village’ with satellite TV!!
We got back and chowed down some quick noodle soup and made our way to see a spectacular waterfall. We took a half an hour bus ride and there was a boy who was throwing up out the window, we had only realised when Mathias said ‘Man, my arms getting wet from something’, when we realised it was the spew from the kid! hehe
The waterfall was awesome though, it was huge and we have pics to show! Another waterfall we saw halfway up to the main one was swimmable, and totally awesome. We jumped off trees and the top tier of one of the waterdalls into blue, glistening and fresh water! We had a great time swimming around for ages.
We were pretty buggered that night and didn’t do much – we had an awesome dinner at the food markets though, there was a heap of food at dirt cheap prices. Hersh seemed to be able to consume everything – no matter what it looked like. We finished the night with a stroll through the markets
Filed under: Asia Trip, Laos, Luang Prabang
