Thứ Bảy, 19 tháng 2, 2011

Luang NamTha and the start of Laos


After a bit of a mix up during our journey to Laos we missed our bus going to Luang Prabang so to break up the 14hr journey we decided to have a little 2 day stop over in the little town of Luang NamTha. Now when I say little town, I’m not kidding, it was literally one road with a few shops and guest houses along the way – absolutely nothing there! The main thing to do in the region was to go hiking or kayaking in the nearby national park. Ben and I decided to have a day kayaking, which was really good.

 
We ended up kayaking about 21km along the river with some fun little rapids along the way. We stopped at a couple of little hill tribe villages along the way, they were really cool – so many animals wondering around everywhere, pigs, dogs, cats, chickens, goats etc. The villagers were lovely too, it was really great to see how they live, interesting day.


 
Our “lunch” was pretty funny – basically rice wrapped up in banana leaves, a random bit of fish and bananas, it was really funny, good experience! We only stayed in LN for a couple of days then we were finally off to Luang Prabang.


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