Alms/Walking/Thai Landings One of the 'attractions' in Luang Prabang involves getting up early to watch the alms giving. This is a traditional daily activity where the local people give food to the monks for their daily meal. Some genius decided it would be a great idea to let tourists also join in, reading about this on the net suggested that its been turned into a bit of a circus, with people using flash photography, pushing people out the way to get pictures...

Howdah you do it? After another sock coffee and a baguette we were picked up on time by our transport to Elephant Village (a 15km journey out of LP) On arriving we quickly made our way over to the elephant feeding station, there was about 8 elephants (some huge!) munching away on a combo of banana and palm stalks, stripping away the outer parts with their trunks. The elephants have to eat 250 kilos of food a day as they are not good at digesting it. The villag...

Waterfalls & Sock Coffee The line of stalls on the main street that sell the fruit shakes also sell cheap baguettes and coffee. We decided this would be a cheap breakfast as the hotel we were staying wanted to charge $10 each for breakfast (most of our rooms up until now had it included within the rate). I had a chicken & avocado baguette (stuffed with salad and some chilli sauce) and an ice coffee that was brewed through something that resembles a sock ...

Hello Mekong (again) On the way to Wat Xieng Thong we ventured up the main street again, which looked much better in the light and with the night market gone. We could see some of the French-Indo architecture that this location is known for (had a similar feel to Hoi An, another Unesco site we were at last year). I knew we were close to the Nam Khan river so I suggested we take a walk towards it. This gave us easily one of the best views of the trip with a foot...

Prabang After another batch of breakfast noodle soup we took another walk to the Art Museum to see if it was now open but it was still closed. There was another failed attempt at finding the food market we saw on tv a few weeks back. I asked the hotel if a certain market on my map was the food market, but I probably got an asian "yes" rather than a real one. Needless to say we solved our heat issues again with some more ice coffee and some sweet treats from a ...