Next morning and we have an early start for a day of sightseeing. First stop was to the day market- a whole assortment of interesting items for sale. The food stalls really stay in my memory the most. Live frogs, deep fried whole rats, buffalo feet and tails, duck heads, eels, a bowl of a live fish that the woman spat into (yummy), all parts of meat covered in flies and bugs and an interesting assortment of fruits and veg. Anyway those sights slightly didn't enco...

Today was a semi- early start to get to my bus for luang prabang (I had booked it through quite a dodgy travel agent so I was hoping the bus was taking me there!) I waited at my designated bus stop at the designated time... No bus. Went to the "travel agent" and he told me to hop on to a waiting tuk tuk that would take me to my "VIP" bus. VIP was severely overestimating what it actually was. It was a coach with semi-reclinable seats (you may see seat reclinabili...