Luang Prabang - Laos

Luang Prabang is a city full of Western and Asian tourists. We used the time to rest up as Lil was blocked up with hayfever and we needed time to relax after some pretty exhausting tuk tuk (ute) rides. The utes have narrow bench seats along the sides of the vehicles and they jam in anyone who wants a ride as well as all their bags of rice and boxes of goods. We even had to push a tuk tuk uphill as it had lost some of its gears!
We stayed in a nice modern guesthouse and were able to catch up on the news of the car petrol bombs in Glasgow and John was able to check on the golf,the All Blacks rugby games and the yachting!
Anyone for street-dried rice cakes!
Some of the buildings from the time of the French occupation.

Sorry we cannot turn the pictures for you as we take them directly from our camera and onto the blog.
The main street.
These sparrows in cages could be bought at the bottom of the temple on the hill in the middle of Luang Prabang and then released at the top to gain merit.

There were trips to caves, temples and waterfalls but we had our fill of these so stayed in town. It is raining more and more everyday with some amazing storms.