The sun is shining and my toes are cold up here in Lam Nha Tah, Laos. Gordy and I got here yesterday after an interesting 9 hour bus from Luang Prubang- the mini Europe of Laos. Imagine downtown hip-strip cafes and cute t-shirt vendors everywhere. The up side of that tourist trap town is the 10,000 kip street sandwiches, especially made by the fat Lao woman that laughed at Gordy every time he wandered back to her stall for another treat. I think she was amazed at his eating skills- or she might have just thought his crazy ginger 'fro was hilarious to look at. Which it is...
Seriously though, L.P. had a great national museum and an interesting night market (interesting for the first 20 min.) but other than that it could have been any downtown streets in the US with Lao signs. It was crawling with tourists- clean, on holiday tourists- not many dirt-bag back packers like us.
Which brought us north, thank god, and we are back in the middle of no where. Funny, how I love being nowhere so much more than a certain place. Tomorrow we leave on a 3day/2 night trek through the LamNamta National forest for a night in a Hmong village and remote camp. Should be nice given it's only us and two guys we met on the bus.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, I hope that you all enjoy stuffing your face for me. I will be eating rice soup for the next few nights, so remember some extra cranberry sauce for me.
cheers!
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