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    Dec.1

Luang Prabang! This place is beautiful.
Mountains - Temples & rivers: Nam Mekong & Nam Khan (nam = river). The town is medium sized & full of lovely wooden houses. We landed in the sunlight & watched it sparkle in the small temples full of golden ornaments on the hilltops. The airport was small only one concrete building - where they unloaded our luggage in one pile so we had to find the backpacks ourselves - showed a man the matching tag so they could see we found the correct bag. We had a lot of fun 'cause the tags said Ho Chi Minh City - I guess they had run out of Luang Prabang ones. We found a motorcycle taxi & he guided us to a lovely guesthouse named Vannida. We got some super rooms - huge & full of bamboo furniture. The guesthouse looks like an Asian version of Pippi Longstockings house. It's full of balconies - stairways & a garden full of roses.
We took a walk along the Mekong river - found a restaurant & ate green papaya salad & fish & shared a bottle of Thai whisky with Ingrid (Belgium) - Tim (USA) & Ivar (Sweden) - enjoyed life & watched the sun go down over the Mekong river.

Dec.2

We hired bikes today & drove around to look at the whole town. Ate Laotian ice cream ("frozen" powder milk with chocolate taste) REALLY strange. We'd seen temples & kids & took SO many photos of all of it. We been on a marked - & seen 100's of Buddha figures looking at us with this mysterious smile - they all got.
We went out to the football stadium to Revolution National Day (20 years).It was fantastic - 1000's of Laotians & 4 Ferlangs. We'd seen agriculture exhibitions (aŽlaŽ1950) TOP Modern. - school material - Dental - Hospital equipment - they were so proud & we smiled & smiled. It was so great to see it all - we'd learned too - to appreciate what we got back home!
We found a dancing area where we were invited (well actually we were ordered ) to dance with some locals - thy matched us up with some with the right size - & we danced the night away & had a LOT of fun.