Luang Prabang

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Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang was a surprisingly nice place to visit. We were just supposed to use it as a base for visiting the elephant festival up the river and to pass the time until our 'gibbons experience' reservation. As soon as we arrived we found an awesome night market where we could buy all sorts of useful and neccessary handicrafts to send home. Again, all the bars closed at around 10pm- but this time there was a bowling alley! As if from nowhere, Luang Prabang has a real-live bowling alley just like the ones back home (with TVs and stuff), and even better; it serves Beer lao and stays open til 3am!!

There was also a sweet waterfall outside town which had a bear sanctuary and a tiger. very nice.

The route to the elephant festival and back, and then on to the gibbons experience is along the same stretch of the Mekong- we did 4 days (9 hours each) in one week. Pantalon.

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Photos

Kingpins
The English/Irish/Canadian bowling team

Shithead
A fantastic international card game.

Mr T
He pities fools

Bear
An Asiatic black bear. In the wild- on a climbing frame that he made himself.

Tiger
Behind a fence she made herself in the wild. Not really- actually she was rescued from poachers when she was only a kitten.

Twisting by the pool
Tropical waterfall pool.