12.08.2004

Northern Exposures #2

Posted by justin

Well blow the budget. Even if it is two baht a minute for internet access and we're trying to maintain a fifteen dollar a day per capita expenditure for this city-state of two people in paradise, well do it. For the readers. Here are some pics of the first half of our travels in Laos - from recollection assorted snaps around Vang Vieng in Laos.

One, or two, snaps from our guesthouse looking over the market-end of Vang Vieng. You get a sense of those lush, jagged mountains that just seem to pop up everywhere in northern Laos.

We road some bicycles round to a swimming hole and I pretended to be David Attenborough investigating the local Laotian insect life.

Clearly in the grip of my new camera's features, I tried a night vision shot when we checked out some local caves.

Successfully navigating said cave required usual group photo shot with Dan and Niki, those two crazy Poms we ended up doing the dirt biking trip with up in Northern Laos.

I hope this gives you some idea of the geography in northern Laos - it really is astounding. We all just kept confirming the cliche of modern day limited vocabulary yoof as we travelled along the winding roads north - 'awesome', 'wow', 'awesome', 'wow', until we discovered 'Lao!' a delightful, witty substitute.

We'll upload some more pics whenever it stops being so sunny, so 30 degrees, and such a by-the-beach-lazing-everyday-and-partying-at-night-atmosphere.

Glenn - will get those pics of Palitas and Tommys guesthouses to you soon! Like I said - we have our regular fruit/yoghurt/muesli breakfast their everyday. Dan and Niki - let us know how Koh Phi Phi is - and get your asses over to Koh Pha Ngan for one of these parties if you're in the mood - a real nice closer-to-thirty-than-twenty crowd as we didn't suspect. You too Ferguson - if you're hitting Bangkok on your way to Sydney after Scotland divert course for a few days down to the islands ;-)

What else- um join me in a national day of action against the Commonwealth Bank if they don't get my $2000 back from a last netbank scam from Vietnam. Gotta love it.

Anyway off to bed before I type away my website space limit.

Oh - Dave - that last line has been bugging me. Every short story competition you don't enter is one you don't win, right? Some of them prefer to remain in ignorance of their potential - what a mystery, the human psyche. "We were aware of our potential, but had done nothing to certify it". or something...