Much as I enjoyed being by the seaside
and appreciated the kind hospitality of Jack and Bua in their magnificent house
in Klong Wan, we were ready to leave and it was a relief to
get back to our favourite home - Luang Prabang.
New Year in Thailand was quiet. We searched the 7/11 for sparkling wine without
luck so ended up with a few beers. The local teenagers let off fireworks
outside the house on the beach but it was nothing like the old days in Kep.
We spent the last few days walking, chatting to fellow
guest Lynette from Slough, and organising the details of our trip back to Laos.
Chai, the friendly taxi driver, agreed to drive all three of us to Bangkok,
dropping Lynette off on the way so that she could pick up a bus to her next
destination. It was a 5 hour trip and a very early start. Inevitably Chai didn’t
really know the drop-off point and the drive was a bit hairy as he tried to negotiate
the traffic with phone in hand! Scary.
We made it to the airport on time, caught our AirAsia flight
at 1:55 and in no time at all were back at Luang Prabang airport being picked
up by Toui and Sue. What a relief!
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| These are tiny squid being dried in the sun. |
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| The women of Klong Wan seem to do this work while the men go out to fish. |
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| Klong Wan temple is a huge splendid building for such a small village. |
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| But what's with all the tigers and zebra!? |
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| A last beer in Thailand on our balcony at Yen Yen Homestay. |
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| And a first beer in Laos! (There's a theme developing here!) |
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| On our first day back in the Greenhouse Studio, we wandered round our local Wat in the evening light. This canoe is unfeasibly long. It is, apparently, riverworthy and is used in the annual boat races. I'd love to see that. |
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| The view from the temple grounds towards the Mekong. |
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| Looking across the Nam Khan towards our house on the other bank |
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| The second bamboo bridge across the river at the tip of the peninsula has been built since we were last here at the beginning of December. It will help in bringing tourists over to the paper and weaving villages. |
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| This is the view from the bottom of our garden. Beautiful - even on a cloudy day like today. |
The view from the garden looks like the Old French Bridge across the Nam Khan?
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is! We cross that bridge on the rickety wooden walkways either side every day. It's only let me down once - and fortunately one end of the plank held firm and was strong enough to spring me back up!
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