I'm back from the rash decision "mmm, I haven't had pork yet, let's go for that". Bad idea but now feeling like a genuine traveller at least.
From Luang Prabang we headed up river via long, slow, arduous but beautiful boat trip to a couple of villages that had electricity only at night - powered by bicycle tyres spun by the force of the river's current, and some salubrious accomm as noted by the husband's earlier 'press' release (NB. Erica Brewster is actually CEO).
A couple of v relaxed days and the beauty of having to order a bucket of fire-heated water to wash in we headed back down stream and made it to Vang Viang. Traveller heaven. Tubing on the river for 5 hours in the sunshine with only Beer Lao and sunshine to sustain us made for a very relaxing afternoon.
Kayaking to Vientiene was the option we chose the next day in order to avoid the hairy bus journey south. The kayaking was great, espec flipping out in a rapid, but the bus journey we tried to avoid just disguised itself into a flat-bed tuk tuk; (basically they chucked 14 of us on to the back of a ute for a couple of hours' drive and then collected about 5 locals along the way. Special.)
South tonight on the sleeper bus.
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I'd like to say that no one is the least bit surprised with the take over bid - Erica to CEO almost sounds like a coup...
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