further north in Laos
September 10th 2006 Nong Kiaw is just 96 km up the river from Luang Prabang and I had heard the boat trip was stunning, so even though it takes only 3.5 hours by bus, I decided to take the boat, which I was told would take 8 hours - but turned out to be more like 10 - including a stop at a local whisky manufacturing (re tourist) village, and then later a breakdown and subsequent stop on a river bank to repair the boa
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