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Relaxation
Tired after a long trip to BKCopenhagen-Luang Prabang
Day 1-2
28.05 – 30.05.2011
Day 1
This is written on the 30¬th, since we were way to tired yesterday to write anything. Travelling, clocking in at about 19 hours has been exhausting, but so far well worth it. We arrived in Bangkok airport very early in the morning, and had 3 hours of waiting ahead of us. Fortunately we found some very comfortable chairs, which served wonderfully as makeshift beds as my father found out. We then had a short flight with a small airplane to Luang Prabang Airport. After everything had cleared up with baggage and visas, we met our very friendly guide and driver, Sum and Dii for our stay in Laos. They toom us to our hotel, The Apsara in LP, with a view of the Kang river. We had 2 hours for ourselves, which were used to go around town and afterwards get some well-needed sleep.
We now had an interesting tour with Sum to the former royal residence and different buddhist temples around town, including one on the top of a hill with a wonderful view of the whole town. Though climbing a hill makes you notice the high temperature and humidity
Finally
Luang Prabang Airport even more. There are more than 35 temples in Luang Prabang, so you will most likely see a temple in every direction that you look. We said our farewells to the guide and had a nice cool beer at the hotel bar. The night came and we tried some wonderful Lao food, including some fantastic fried spring rolls. The dinner was wonderful, at least until I mistook a very hot chili for a small carrot. As my interest in the food suddenly dissappeared, we went to check out the night market. This consisted of at least 100 stands with people selling trinkes and food of different kinds. After walking through the market, we then headed home and fell asleep instantly once our heads hit the pillow.
Day 2
The day started out fantasticly with a great breakfast. We were then picked up by Sum and Dii, and taken to a long slender Longtip boat which would serve as the main vehicle of transportation for most of the day. To start out, we went to a small village down the river, in which pottery was made. They had immense underground ovens used to bake the pottery. We headed towards the
Huge
Largest Buddha in the area Pak Ou Caves up the Meekong River and enjoyed the nice weather along the way. The caves themselves were very impressing, filled with thousands of Buddha statues in varying sizes poses and materials. The number of Buddhas had dvindled under the years, some due to stealing, others had been destroyed or damage by termites and ageing. Just below the entrance to the cave there was two marks on the cliff. These showed how far up the water had gone in 1966 and 2008. This was more than 10 meters higher than the waterlevel was now. The restaurant we later ate on, positioned opposite the caves on the other bank of the river, had been mostly under water in 2008 due to the high flood. They had a picture of it at the restaurant, showing only the top of the roof, the rest covered by water.
Our next stop was a village called Ban Xang Hai, by most know as Whiskey Village, a place know for its production of the alcohol Lao Lao, a very potent national spirit. Some of the bottles were filled with snakes, beetles or scorpions which looked quite interesting. Dii was here to pick us up and
Buddha's Crib
One of the many temples in town on the way back we visited a place were they make handcrafted paper out of bark. This marked the end of the journey for today and we headed home to the hotel.
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