13. 02. 2010 Tubing down the River in Vian Vieng
Lets take a walk to the water front and look at the other Mandalay today! Due to the power failure many people have to relay on car batteries for light (and the tv) in the night Not really common any more in the city Monk express Marius?? I wonder what it is to life here…
Here you find the Album :-) greets from sunny Laos!
Lets take a walk and look at the colors today! And there are so many more…
I was still waiting – and so was he As the sun was going to leave this part of the world for a few hours i climbed up to the temple on the hill – and it was full of dogs. Good night Kalaw – only 2 more hours till the bus…I told the woman…
Hiking down to the lake we did cross the rails at the 1st day. Thinking the train takes that route up to Kalaw I decided to take it. That includes getting up when the monks collect food in the very early morning. I went out of the hotel and a taxi dropped 2 guys at…
This is the plan – depends if i get a seat in the bus. This town is like Pai – only it is made for French tourists. All the nice original little pop & mom places are gone. They build and build and build – and everything looks the same. It does not look to…
One of my personal favorites on the lake is feeding the sea gulls. It is one of my favorite animal – nice build – form follows function, this bird has it all. I could do this every day – at Inlay at last :-)
Today i felt like having some Chinese food for lunch – this is easy as the border is only 50km from here. Went with my Chinese Honda copy to the border town – Boten – and – had a Dali Beer!! (great) and fried vegetables with rice. All for 1.70 € – i can not…
Went in the morning to the border – it opens at 8 am. did arrive at 8.05 – check out of thailand was smooth and quick. got to the 3rd boat over the Mekong and where with the 1st people to apply for a Lao visa. Later the masses did get there and for some…
I told you (at last the Facebook friends of me) about the GH I booked in Chiang Rai. So I took the bus from Chiang Rai up to here. Of course they have a new bus station 9 km out of town (WHY oh WHY do all the Asian cities start to do that SHIT!!!!!…