Our introduction to Laos has been a bit drawn out as we have been traveling for four days to get to our destination here in the town of Luang Prabang. We took a bus back to Chiang Mai (762 more curves) and spent the night. The next day was a bus north to Chiang Khong and a hired boat across the river to customs and immigration in Laos. The next day was a river boat, the six hour "slow boat" to Pakbeng. Finally the last day had us continuing on the river boat for seven hours to Luang Prabang, a world UNESCO heritage town. The dinner we had that night for $1.25 each was well earned and very delicious.
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| This bus actually was safer because it couldn't go very fast up the hills |
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| Walking down to the boarder after checking out of Thailand immigrations |
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| Our boarder crossing boat awaits |
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| Waiting at the Laos immigration office to get our passports back |
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| Our chariot for the next two days |
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| Another option was the "Fast Boat" with helmets included |
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| We stopped a number of times to pick up and drop off people in these isolated unpowered villages |
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| Day one ending point |
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| View from our layover town room |
A fun note about Laos is that it is required for all tourists to be in a hotel room at midnight. Other regulations for us are quite amusing too. This official notice is posted in every hotel room.
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| We got to the boat an hour early so we wouldn't be on the floor seats the second day |
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| Stick shift and throttle were a little questionable |
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| Not the most beautiful arrival. |
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