Luang Prabang continued to be beautiful and we ended up staying four nights in total. The first day we slept late and by the time we had eaten brunch (noodle soup) it had decided to rain so hard that leaving the hotel room just wasnt an option. The afternoon was spent wandering around and looking at all the beautiful wat's (temples) but not going in since we were still feeling poor from losing my purse. Plus all the wats in thailand are free so it was a little ...

The Land of the Wholehearted People - well beerlao is the beer of the wholehearted people so I shall take this as gospel truth. My emerging beer appreciation/belly is testament to that. We made it to Lao with suprisingly little hassle. Despite the stressful journey from Halong Bay to get the bus in the first place we made it to the border in time and then made the full journey in just under 22 hours. Drop in the ocean! We had heard horror stories of the bus runni...