Luang Prabang

Our guesthouse was able to sort out a bike rental that didn't involve parting with our passports. We cycled to Wat Xieng Thong and we met the French couple who'd bailed us out at the border. We had a walk round the temple together and they headed the opposite way to us. We went along the Mekong up towards the town and stopped at another temple which I'm not to sure of the name. We headed on to Phou Si Temple which was 348 steps to the top, some bigger then others, up there is a marvellous view of the Mekong, Nam Khan and surrounding area, the sellers have flowers and little sparrows in bamboo cages which they sell to people to release, very cruel!

We headed to Tamarind, which served authentic Laos food, one of the nicest tasting lunches I've had in Asia, albeit that bit more expensive. We headed to another temple and headed along the Mekong and went towards the Nam Khan bridge before we headed back to the guesthouse to return the bikes.

Luang Prabang Kuangsi Waterfall

Wasn't sure what we were going to do, we went to rent a bicycle early and were asked for our passport as security, Oh how I laughed as I walked away. We went for breakfast and we were touted a trip for the waterfall 25kms outside of town, we knew from walking around it shouldn't cost more then 30,000kip, he highballed us 50,000kip we told him that we could get it for 30kip up the road, he then offered 40kip we said maybe tomorrow, he gave in at 35kip and said the 30kip have lots more people on the tuk tuk and he'll only put 6 on his, so we shook on it.

We headed to the waterfall and arrived there at 2, he said he'd come back for us later around 4:30, the waterfall was beautiful, clear blue water that you could swim in, I jumped in and it was absolutely freezing, but I soon got used to it, further down there was a rope swing in one of the busier swimming areas, I had a go although it was dodgy as f**k! Definitely the waterfall was not what we were expecting..in a good way. We headed to town for the night market and Tina got herself a nice silk scarf and I got some Laos moonshine...AKA rice whisky.