Monday, 9 January 2012

day 200, luang prabang


Felt a lot better today so ended up going to Kuang Si  waterfall with Graeme, Alex, Holiday Simon, Zach, Lizzy and Lise. We got a baguette for breakfast, negotiated a price with the tuk tuk driver and off we were, an hours drive through the countryside passing small villages and we were there! Paid our entrance fee then a little walk to the waterfall which was really impressive. We did a bit of a walk up round the back of the waterfall, found a really cool sort of vortex whirlpool hole at the top, had a great view and it was really pretty. Following that we walked down and followed the water, ended up at a naturally formed pool with a rope swing plus a little waterfall which you could jump off, it was bloody idyllic. We messed around there for a couple of hours, was really good fun, people were doing flips and shit and sat in the sun. Then we walked back to the tuk tuk and drove home, met up with quite a big group from the hostel, chatted for a bit and tried Snake whiskey (red ’whiskey’ in a jar with snakes) and it was as nice as it sounds, ie fucking hideous. For dinner everyone went to the food alley for a buffet and beer, chatted away to some aussies and a couple from brighton before moving on to Utopia, quite possibly the coolest bar I have ever been to, sand volleyball court, giant jenga, big seating areas with one platform overlooking the river, chilled music and really cool videos on a projector, like the shit off rude tube but all the best uplifting and coolest videos. Was really good fun just chatting away, a few beers and sambuca and the 12 o’clock curfew was upon us. Not fancying the bowling alley went back to the hostel to sit round the fire drinking, got a baguette on the way back and just hung out with Amy, Chris and Katja singing burt Bacharach songs before turning in happily merry.




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