Mekong

Our last day on the Mekong we tried everything to entertain ourselves, looking out the window, sleeping, reading, but after everything got boring one thing seemed to endlessly capture our attention, Bernard had a Thai game made out of a simple bamboo shoot, a small rubber band loop inside and a widdled stick. The object is to get the stick into the loop and get it to snap back into the bamboo. Paul, Matt, Tony and I passed it back and forth for hours, always getting Bernard to show us again.

We made short stops along the way to pick up and drop off locals, at one point I noticed everyone scrambling to the front of the boat. I wondered what the commotion was and I turned to see a small group of children selling scarves. We joked at all the tourists rushing to not buy the scarves, but simply stick cameras in these kids faces.

 We had snacks to employ us too, Matt had a rather interesting soup in a bag and there was beer to drink.

Leg room was very little, especially with Paul and I being mostly legs. The leg shift game grew tiresome a lot so I would often sit on the edge of the boat.

There were many beautiful views of jungles and waterfalls and giant cliffs. I wasn't able to get a great picture of it but we passed a temple set inside a cave. It goes back deep inside the cave with a large golden state of Buddha as well as at least a hundred smaller statues around it. It was an amazing sight.

Sun began to set over the river and it was a very beautiful sunset! We arrived very late in Luang Prabang, we got a little lost inside a street market on the way to our hostel. I didn't have an opportuity to take a picture of the looming temple on a high hill top above the city. What a beautiful day!