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So I arrived in beautiful Luang Prabang after a horrendous 21 hour journey from thailand. Such a releive to get there...first stop before we got our accomodation sorted was visiting the famous Jomo bakery for breakfast Mmmm. We then went on the hunt for accomodation which we quickly found as its not a large town.
Luang Prabang reminded me a little qaint french village that has stopped in time. It''s such a chilled out place everything closes around 11pm and only maybe 1 or 2 small drinking places open.
First afternoon we decided to hire some bicycles and have a ride around town stopping off at various ancient temples along the way and riding along the mekong river taking in the lovely views of the place. On the evening we went to the highest point in town (nearly 300 steps up) which is also an ancient temple to watch the sunset. unfortunatley lots of other people had the same idea. Amazing views watching the sunset go down.
the next day we visited a waterfall and some ancient caves with lots of buddha statues inside which had been there for hundreds of years. we had to get a boat across to the cave as it was in the mddle of the lake.
On the evening we were in a restaurant and you always have the little kids trying to sell things. This evening 2 sisters tried to sell us things, the younger sister was just copying what the older one was saying, they were very funny. We offered to buy them some food instead of buying something from them (as your not meant to encourage children working so not to buy anything from them). We bought them a sandwhich to share but the younger sister was disappointed and went in a mood as she wanted a hamburger! haha. To say thankyou the older sister asked for a pen and drew us some pictures on some napkins for me...how sweet.
Would love to come back here, its s lovely place and people are so friendly....and lots of lovely bakeries! Mmmm
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