So we crossed the border into Laos, got our visas & got a tuk tuk to the slow boat, this is to take us down to Luang Prabang, 2 days of 8 hours each day and an overnight stay in a village on the way down. And it was some experience! we got onto the boat and grabbed ourselves a seat each, the seats were like church pews with room for two people.....two people with really skinny backsides!! So we spread ourselves wise & pleded ignorance,keeping the seat for ourselves, one of d lads said he knew it wasn't full so we got away with it! We had bought cushions and boy were we glad, imagine 8 hours of mass & how sore ur arse would be!! We busied ourselves during the first day by reading,playing
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