Sunday, December 26, 2010
Luang Prabang. Breakfast at the hotel. We drive about 7 hours through windy mountain roads from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng. It's common for people to get carsick on this drive, but I didn't have any problems and slept through most of it. For lunch we stopped at Phoukhoun Phiengfa which has a stunning panoramic view of the karst landscape. In Vang Vieng after we checked in to our hotel I walked the streets a bit and rested in my room. Dinner at an Irish pub: British fish and chips—really good after almost all of my meals on this trip being rice or noodles with vegetables and shrimp. Afterwards Dave and Jan returned to the hotel and the rest of us encountered Ramin and Hector. All of us crossed the river to some bars, had some drinks, and danced on wooden platforms next to a large bonfire. There was no DJ—Hector found out the sound system was some pro mixing equipment and a Windows laptop running Windows Media Player. After about an hour we tired of this place, walked to QBar, and hung out there for about another hour. I left then, tired.