Was my first sentence of the day for the last two weeks. And if not the first sentence, at least the first thought. Thanks to Beat, my Swiss travel buddy, who teached himself to speak a bit Lao, we could order the early morning banana/pineapple fruitshake in the Local language. Somehow the laotians always laughed at us when we said it. Our guess is that we probably pronounced it wrong and accidentily said something like: 'a thousand horses to go please'. Lao is ...

We are cruising down the Mekong river in a slow longtail boat for two days, so I have a lot of time to tell you about my last weeks. We are passing breathtaking landcapes and watch the busy fisherboats doing their daily business, women washing clothes and children playing in the water. It feels unreal beeing in Laos now. The Mekong has always been such an exotic name for me and now I am experiencing it live and in coulour! Feels weird but really good! But back to...