- FOOD: Croissants and cake on the plane; hot, spicy papaya salad; banana and condensed milk pancakes, fresh spring rolls with mint, noodles and egg inside and sticky rice and coconut balls; fish on a stick; Scandanavian bakery; JoMa bakery; sweet Spy wine; the best beer in Asia - Lao beer. - PEOPLE: No taxi men hassling at the airport - just one polite man!; Lao people soooo laid back; many people crowding the river side for the festival; kids selling balloons; speed walkers; smart school children; crazy bus driver and his mates partying hard. - AREA: Cranky old Lao Airline plane; untouched Mekong river with grassy banks and Bun Nam (River Festival) taking place (fireboats, fireworks, lit floats and a boat race); small and chilled out capital; Patuxai (Arc de Triomphe of Laos); dancing, lit
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