Laos

We made a quick stop in Vientiane, but our real destination was a small town in the mountains called Luang Prabang, highly recommended by some good friends. We weren't disappointed, Luang Prabang is a great place to chill, eat and buy local crafts at the night market. Good thing we need to keep on traveling and carrying our stuff, otherwise I would have bought much more, this is Christi speaking of course ; )
The scenery of Laos was beautiful, lots of steep mountains and green landscape. It was cool to see many tiny straw hut villages along the way.


A chubby Buddha in Vientiane, the capital of Laos and also capital of French bakeries. Mmm, loving the chocolate croissants.


The view from Wat Phu Si in Luang Prabang was awesome. You get to see the Mekong river on one side and this small river on the other.




There are tons of monks in this town, here is a typical one walking with his sun umbrella. I also like the renovation scaffolding out of bamboo.



Crossing the Mekong River on a small ferry boat back to Thailand. This was a small break in our 25 hour bus ride from hell with no air conditioning. Half of it was bumpy dirt road. It was well appreciated and Semu just couldn't resist practicing with our new toy we picked up at the beginning of our trip in Hanoi.

We almost lost our Uke already by getting off the night bus half asleep. Luckily the bus station lady called the unfriendly bus driver and he turned out to be nice enough to bring it back.

The last leg of our bus journey was actually quite nice because a very friendly young Thai lady, Amber, was teaching us some new Thai words and practicing her English. KHAP KHUM KAA!!