Lots to do in Louang Prabang
There are some outstanding waterfalls in the area around LP and the scenery is also amazing with mountains and rivers carving their way through. It's prime trekking area, so the Phil and the boys decided on having a 'GRRRRR' kind of day and do some mountain biking, kayaking and swimming at Tad Sae Waterfall.
Us girls decided that we didn't feel quite so energetic so instead decided to take a tuk tuk out to the waterfall and meet up with the boys there. We had a non eventful journey there, really, until we got to the river and realised we had to pay some random fisher men to get the boat across to the waterfall. As we were negotiating the price, a massive group of people came along and they all wanted to also get into our boat. My God, what a kerfuffle! That group didn't want to pay the price we had negotiated - honestly, it was 30p! - and instead launched into this massive thing that took about 20 minutes to resolve. We were properly miffed by the time it came to leaving!
But oh wow, how the mood lifted when we came to the waterfall! It was beautiful! It's set amongst trees and spills straight into the Nam Ou river over several steps. At each step you have pools and the water is turquoise and very clean and beautiful. It was so relaxing! We sunbathed, had a picnic and generally just enjoyed life. The boys loved it there too and they ended up not really looking forward to the 3 hour upstream kayak to get them back to our Guesthouse - heheheh.
On another day, we went to another waterfall, Kuang Sae which was about 30km away from town. We went there by sawngthaew, which is basically an open truck with two wooden benches. It was very funny riding in it, but only for a while, because your bum hurts and then you get very dusty on the dirt roads. By the time we got to the waterfall, we looked like we had rolled in dirt. But this waterfall was amazing too! It is very tall and then breaks up into smaller pools, but it's less open than Tad Sae and there are a lot of trees and rocks in the water. It's still great though.
We were swimming in this one waterhole, when Phil was being very brave and jumped off the waterfall there into the pool below. It doesn't look so high, but when you do it, wow, it takes so long to hit the water! After Phil did it, we all gave it a go and felt very brave afterwards. We also swam underneath the smaller fall (it was really hard, I almost didn't make it) and it was great!
On our way back to town, we managed to get super dusty yet again and we also saw this elephant walking along the road! What a great day!
Us girls decided that we didn't feel quite so energetic so instead decided to take a tuk tuk out to the waterfall and meet up with the boys there. We had a non eventful journey there, really, until we got to the river and realised we had to pay some random fisher men to get the boat across to the waterfall. As we were negotiating the price, a massive group of people came along and they all wanted to also get into our boat. My God, what a kerfuffle! That group didn't want to pay the price we had negotiated - honestly, it was 30p! - and instead launched into this massive thing that took about 20 minutes to resolve. We were properly miffed by the time it came to leaving!
But oh wow, how the mood lifted when we came to the waterfall! It was beautiful! It's set amongst trees and spills straight into the Nam Ou river over several steps. At each step you have pools and the water is turquoise and very clean and beautiful. It was so relaxing! We sunbathed, had a picnic and generally just enjoyed life. The boys loved it there too and they ended up not really looking forward to the 3 hour upstream kayak to get them back to our Guesthouse - heheheh.
On another day, we went to another waterfall, Kuang Sae which was about 30km away from town. We went there by sawngthaew, which is basically an open truck with two wooden benches. It was very funny riding in it, but only for a while, because your bum hurts and then you get very dusty on the dirt roads. By the time we got to the waterfall, we looked like we had rolled in dirt. But this waterfall was amazing too! It is very tall and then breaks up into smaller pools, but it's less open than Tad Sae and there are a lot of trees and rocks in the water. It's still great though.
We were swimming in this one waterhole, when Phil was being very brave and jumped off the waterfall there into the pool below. It doesn't look so high, but when you do it, wow, it takes so long to hit the water! After Phil did it, we all gave it a go and felt very brave afterwards. We also swam underneath the smaller fall (it was really hard, I almost didn't make it) and it was great!
On our way back to town, we managed to get super dusty yet again and we also saw this elephant walking along the road! What a great day!
posted by Phil and Tanja @ 2:23 AM
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