Good day everyone! Today is Sam and my last day in Laos (tomorrow morning we will fly to Siem Reap). We have been MIA for the past few days because we have been laying low. I got sick our second day here (with a cold) so I didn't want to do much of anything. When I was feeling well Sam and I spent time walking around to the various Wat's in the city.
Yesterday I was feeling much better, so we decided to do some shopping and an adventure. In the afternoon we too a boat ride up the Mekong River to a temple in a cave; Pako Cave.
Pako cave was a good 1.5 hr ride up river. Opposite a large limestone mountain (that reminded us of Halong Bay). The cave is RIGHT on the river! Very drastic landscape change. The temple was very cool... All be it the 25 requests for "donation" we could have done without.... I don't think they quite get that a donation is optional... Which is especially hard to do when you pay to get into the temple to begin with.
We made it back to Luang Prabang at dusk and decided to save some money and eat street food for dinner. They offer 5.000 Kip/plate meals (that's like, .60)... Which was good until I realized we needed some protein. Then we bought chicken on a stick for 5.000 Kip... Oh yeah and a water for 2.000. Thus far, best priced meal yet... Sam and I ate for $1.70 each! Bite me McDonald's (and our food was 100% organic and locally grown... Shit, I think I even saw that chicken crossing the street earlier that day ;) and for those of you who are wondering how our stomachs handled this "street food", so far so good.
We made the decision that if we didn't get to siem reap at this point then we probably never would. We even toied with the idea of skipping Angkor Wat, but one conversation with our parents and they pretty much slapped that bad idea of the shelf! They were both very supportive of us visiting the temple and basically told us we had to go... So we are!
Until next time...
Yesterday I was feeling much better, so we decided to do some shopping and an adventure. In the afternoon we too a boat ride up the Mekong River to a temple in a cave; Pako Cave.
Pako cave was a good 1.5 hr ride up river. Opposite a large limestone mountain (that reminded us of Halong Bay). The cave is RIGHT on the river! Very drastic landscape change. The temple was very cool... All be it the 25 requests for "donation" we could have done without.... I don't think they quite get that a donation is optional... Which is especially hard to do when you pay to get into the temple to begin with.
We made it back to Luang Prabang at dusk and decided to save some money and eat street food for dinner. They offer 5.000 Kip/plate meals (that's like, .60)... Which was good until I realized we needed some protein. Then we bought chicken on a stick for 5.000 Kip... Oh yeah and a water for 2.000. Thus far, best priced meal yet... Sam and I ate for $1.70 each! Bite me McDonald's (and our food was 100% organic and locally grown... Shit, I think I even saw that chicken crossing the street earlier that day ;) and for those of you who are wondering how our stomachs handled this "street food", so far so good.
We made the decision that if we didn't get to siem reap at this point then we probably never would. We even toied with the idea of skipping Angkor Wat, but one conversation with our parents and they pretty much slapped that bad idea of the shelf! They were both very supportive of us visiting the temple and basically told us we had to go... So we are!
Until next time...
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