Sunday December, 30th 2007 After many hesitations, I've chosen to take the boat to Luang Prabang. It's a 2-day journey on the Mekong river. The boat is slowly starting to fill up. Some slightly too large wooden benches are hastily replaced by smaller ones to accommodate (or rather pack up) more passengers. The diversity of the passengers is amazing: an old French couple, an Australian family, local people carrying large bags, the serb couple who were at the guest house, a girl with a lot of piercing, tattoos on her thighs and a larger tattoo going down from her shoulders to her breasts (je suppose que comme les poils verts des “bancs publics” de Brassens (version étudiante), ils sont là sans doute pour ajouter de la couleur à ce qui fait notre bonheur), a group of
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