Luang Prabang, Central Laos 14/8/05 We arrived here safely two days ago. We stayed a couple of nights at a great guesthouse in Huay Xai. Huay Xai is a small town on the Mekong in Laos. To cross over from Thailand you get a little boat that is grandly called the ferry. It takes 4 passengers? We stayed two nights and got the slow boat down the Mekong. The first day we were on a boat that had been recently refurbished. All the timbers above the steel hull were new. It was broader than other slow boats we had been on. The seats, wooden planks with a wooden back, had deeper seats and much more leg room. The boat was full so we could not have the luxury of one seat per person. Alan and I
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