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Hello everyone,
We recently left the laid back village of Pai and began a two day slow boat trip down the Mekong from Thailand into Laos. We travelled on a huge 'long boat' through the most awesome scenery and rested overnight at Baan Pakbeng. This is another very rustic town on the banks of the chocolate-milk Mekong and we were greeted by village ladies carrying handfulls of live, quacking ducks. Every restaurant doubled as the owners house also and their family and children would be sat watching television and having their dinner in a proper lounge corner of the restaurant with thier sofas, coffee tables and personal photographs for all to see.... from here we did another 8 hours on the slow boat before reaching our destination... Luang Prabang.
On arrival you can instantly see why the place is world heritage listed and it is possibly one of the most picturesque places I have ever seen.
Today we went through a forrest to a huge waterfall and swam in the numerous rockpools that were fed by the crystal clear water. We swung out on tarzan swings into the water and others dived from knee-tremblingly high trees.
On a personal note my body has adapted to the multitude of mozzy and insect bites. I still get bitten but no longer consider amputation as a solution to ease the itching.
The humidity is something else and has a somehwat leaking effect on my body so for the sake of efficiency I am thinking of cutting out the middle man (being me) and just pouring the copious amounts of bottled water straight onto my clothes.
I have been excersing a lost and long forgotten primary school attribute and I have started reading again and already polished off two big thick books with no pictures... who'd have thought.... I'm still a way off the tie-died cheese-cloth clothing, dreadlocks and jewelry made from shells but we'll see as my hair grows.
It's still too early to really really miss anyone properly yet but the travelleing so far, the peole we have met, the places we have seen, the sounds, sights (not so much all the smells) reminds us each day that we're alive and confirms the reason we chose to do this trip.
We are having technical difficulties with the SD card reader with the new cards so I will have to bring in the camera USB cable the next time to upload the new photos... sorry but they should be worth waiting for.
That's all this time so from me (aka Stuart Leaking-Moonchild), Bernie and the duckwomen of Pakbeng...
Peace, Love and Life.... Word up !!!
XXX
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