Waterfalls & Sock Coffee The line of stalls on the main street that sell the fruit shakes also sell cheap baguettes and coffee. We decided this would be a cheap breakfast as the hotel we were staying wanted to charge $10 each for breakfast (most of our rooms up until now had it included within the rate). I had a chicken & avocado baguette (stuffed with salad and some chilli sauce) and an ice coffee that was brewed through something that resembles a sock ...

Hello Mekong (again) On the way to Wat Xieng Thong we ventured up the main street again, which looked much better in the light and with the night market gone. We could see some of the French-Indo architecture that this location is known for (had a similar feel to Hoi An, another Unesco site we were at last year). I knew we were close to the Nam Khan river so I suggested we take a walk towards it. This gave us easily one of the best views of the trip with a foot...

Prabang After another batch of breakfast noodle soup we took another walk to the Art Museum to see if it was now open but it was still closed. There was another failed attempt at finding the food market we saw on tv a few weeks back. I asked the hotel if a certain market on my map was the food market, but I probably got an asian "yes" rather than a real one. Needless to say we solved our heat issues again with some more ice coffee and some sweet treats from a ...

Heat Correlation I've discovered there is a direct link between the temperature outside and the amount of chilli served in our food! For breakfast I had some more noodle soup, that came with chilli paste as a condiment, it warmed me up ready to take on the outside heat! We rented bikes, and like other asian experiences, this means you get a heap of junk that is far too small and my knees almost touch my elbows as I peddle, but for 10,000 kip a day (about 12,50...

Buffalo skin paste Vientiane is well developed. Its quite clean, organised and there aren't any kids running around the streets like we found in the previous two countries. It isn't filled to the brim with activities and the main area is quite small, this is good news as it's far too hot to do too much (about 35 degrees). Laos as a country has only been open to tourists again for the last 20 years (civil war prevented travel to the country and the borders were...