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Published: February 28th 2006
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Kuang Si waterfalls
Water's well nice innit?! Woulda gone for a swim and all if I hadn't decided to wear combats that day - doh! The road from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang is a bastard I've got to say, 6 hours for a 180km trip, they've gotta be taking the piss surely? They fucking weren't - it's the hilliest, windiest road imaginable so we never got above about 40kmh and that wasn't helped by the fact that the driver didn't seem to realise that gears go down as well as up - put it in 2nd gear you muppet; we're going about 5mph! Met a sound London lad on the bus called John so chatted to him for most of the journey. We got dropped off in the middle of nowhere which is always the way so had to get a tuk tuk into the centre of town from there. Found Seng Phet Guesthouse (nealy sounds Geordie that dunnit?), after 20minutes of looking round for $8 a night for a basic room with bathroom but it seemed everywhere in Luang Prabang is expensive so it wasn't too bad a deal. Watched a repeat of the Arsenal vs. Real Madrid game and couldn't believe it when Arsenal won, just have to hope Real get their act together for the second leg I reckon. We were invited
This has got shampoo advert written all over it!
I was looking out for a naked Timotei woman to run in and wash her hair like but no such joy :o( to a beach party on the river but when we were finally kicked out of the pub at closing time we couldn't find the place so just went back to the guesthouse and got wrecked instead.
Next day me and John decided to have a good look round Luang Prabang to see what was there but we soon realised that the answer was not a lot so went on the piss all day instead. Had deer and wild boar for my tea that night and it was well fit, definitely trying that again! Chelsea got beat by Barcelona that night (loving Terry's og), good thing really though coz otherwise I never would've heard the end of it off my Dad. Mad thing is, I've seen more Premiership football since I've been over here in Asia than I did when I was living in England, it's on all the bloody time out here!
We decided the next day that we needed to actually do something otherwise we'd be bored shitless so we booked a tuk tuk to take us to Kuang Si waterfall. We were on the trip with an Italian couple and a French girl and considering the place was
That's a fucking big spider!
Dunno if it can kill you or owt, wasn't in the mood for testing it either but it was easily as big as my hand - fook!!! a good 30km drive out of town, it wasn't bad for only $3. It took us the best part of an hour to get there but it was well worth it coz the place was absolutely stunning (just check the pics for proof). There's a bit of a zoo at the bottom of the hill with bears and things in it but unlike most zoos I've seen out here, the animals had plenty of room to move about and seemed pretty happy so it was OK. There was a mini Glastonbury going on in the centre of town so we stopped for a beer to laugh at the local women wandering around legless and doing mad shit to each other then on the way home we stopped at a traditional Hmong village but if constantly trying to sell stuff to tourists is their traditional way of life then I'm fucking Homer Simpson ffs! The rest of the night was spent getting pissed and stoned with everyone who'd been on the trip with us then when I got back to the guesthouse I met 4 Israeli's so spent the next 2 hours playing Shithead but they played wank rules so I
John, Cat, Felix and Barbara at the waterfall
Spent the whole day getting wrecked with this lot so good day all round kept losing, wasn't impressed...
Bang bang bang, that fucking building work next door's woken me up at 9am every morning so far, it's doing my head in! Fuck this, I'm going getting a bacon butty and a brew. Wandered round a few temples after that but they're all looking pretty similar after seeing so many just recently so didn't keep that up too long. The only one that stood out was the one on the hill in the centre (I think it's called That Chamsi), but that was only good coz of the view from the top once you walk up the best part of 400 steps to get to it. Found out that my flight booking to go to Chiang Mai the next day had fallen through but it said to try and get on it anyway by waiting on stand by for any cancellations at the last minute.
That night I went on a bar crawl with the 4 Israeli's and found a really nice place called Hive Barbut since them lot weren't that big drinkers we were back at the guesthouse for around 11ish. I bumped into John back there and we decided to make some dodgy
Where's Wally?
He's in there somewhere - 10 quid to the first one to spot him... ;o) brews (I won't say what was in them), so by the time I got to bed I was wasted! I was in pretty much the same state when I got up and all but got myself sorted with plenty of time to spare, said bye to John then got a lift off Noo (a girl working in the guesthouse across the road that had taken a shine to me), to the airport.
The Chiang Mai flight was still full but blagged myself on a flight to Vientiane for $60 so wasn't a complete waste of time turning up. I've only got a month to get to Singapore now so running outta time rapidly plus I've still not done my PADI diving course either, better get a fucking wriggle on eh?! In a bit...
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