WOW! Luang Prabang...what a place!
We arrived and it was pouring down with rain, but we managed to find a nice hotel we were told was in the centre (turns out it wasn't really...but was cheaper to stay there than in the centre itself so cool...we'll walk,no biggie.)
The rain stopped and the next day was boiling hot, brilliant sunshine and we went out to explore...
Luang Prabang is a really cool place, two rivers flowing through it with a lot of cafe's, stalls, night markets and bars.
We wandered around the nightmarkets...ate at the stalls on the roadside (we kept going back to this one woman because her baguettes were so good!), drank fruit shakes, and went to a few bars which had really cool gardens all lit up with lanterns and fairy lights.
There were a lot of drinks offers on also.

We met a Greek girl named Sofia on our bus on the way and bumped into her when we were walking down the street a few nights later..we arranged to go for dinner the next night with her and her boyfriend, Dominic who was from Switzerland.
We met up with them and had a LaoLao barbeque.
We basically had a platter of meat - buffalo, beef, chicken, pork, squid and prawns. A ton of green leafy salad, glass noodles and ...soup.
And free fried eggplants! lol.

The idea is they bring the platter of raw meat to your table, and all the other stuff....and you cook it yourself.
The middle of your table actually comes out and a stone bucket full of hot coal is put in it's place...
A metal dome is then put on top of this, and you put the soup in it...the noodles and salad in the soup, and the meat on the dome to cook...all the juices from the meat flow down to the soup and make it flavoursome.Ha!

It took ages to get through it all...especially deciding how to cook the eggs. Did we boil them in the soup? Fry them? What? We decided to crack them open and fry them in the soup (random, I know... but what's the worst that can happen? :-P)

After that, Luke and I went to a bar called the LaoLao garden for a few cocktails.It was amazingly cheap for a cocktail...about a pound or less!
Lao beer was always less than a pound!

We had made the decision to go to Xam Neua the next day...to be closer to the border for when we go into Vietnam.
....Yeah, bad idea.

xx