Sabaidee! (That's hello in Lao)
On Monday we took a flight from Chiang Mai to Luang Prabang, Laos. When we got on the plane we realized that we had just joined up with tour of people all three times the age of us, and when we got off the plane the average age of the travelers around didn't change much. However, we decided to fully embrace this, and let our Grandma side shine through with pride this week. The hostel we stayed in for the first couple nights had a variety of nic nacs on display, a cute little canopy over our bed, and they even provided us with robes. Just darling! Luang Prabang has an artsy feel, and there are adorable cafes all along the main tourist strips serving delicious food. We have eaten our pancakes, fruit, and granola everyday by the Mekong riverside. Also, there is a very enticing night market here every night that sells hand crafted items from the nearby village, and the sandwiches that we can't live without are conveniently placed at the end of the road that the market is on. So, we may have visited here a few times, and we may have picked up a few things. You just can't pass up $2 hand made scarfs!!
We will just fill you on on the main activities we indulged in this week. We saw the famous Wat Xieng Thong Temple, along with another famous temple that we hiked to see, took a tuk tuk ride to the Tat Kuang Si Waterfalls (gorgeous!), took a 7 hour cooking class, went to the Royal Palace Museum, and went to a tradition Lao ballet. Yes, Meghan actually did some cooking and didn't light anything on fire! We made five traditional Lao dishes all together, and all but one of them turned out pretty good.
We actually did meet a few people here close to our age that we took the cooking class with. There are a really fun group of guys from Arizona, Washington DC, and England. We have had some great conversations with them, and are breaking away from our grandma ways for the evening to go bowling with them.
We leave tomorrow morning for Vietnam!! Stay tuned for more adventures!
