We are sailing up the Mekong River, (SE Asia's answer to the Nile) for the second day now, travelling from Luang Prabang in Laos and heading for the Thai border. This is a particularly rugged and scenic setting, as the river meanders its path through unchartered jungle and mountainous landscapes. The river is sometimes quiet and still, like a mirror, and at other times agressive and hateful with whirlpools and rapids - not a bad setting to write our blog we think! After we last wrote to you, we travelled north up to Hanoi, Vietnam's capital city. On that journey we met Katja, a German girl travelling on her own. We were on a bus, the majority Vietnamese with only 3 'westerners'. So the three of us got talking, and got on well enough for the
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