Final words from Laos

Our last day in Vang Vieng I relaxed in the morning, read my book and went for a run. And then Dan and I hiked to Lusi cave which was 2km from town. It was a smaller version of the Poukham cave we went to the day before. The owner of the hostel we were staying at had a wife who owned a restaurant right beside. She offered to cook us a Laos dinner our last night! It was so nice. She bbq'd fish, made veggie stir fry and a salad. It was so delicious (Sai Lai in Laos) and even though we really couldn't understand each other it was cool to interact the little we could. The hostel was called Nana Guesthouse, I'd recommend it to anyone in Vang Vieng the owner and his wife are amazing.


Tonight is our last night in Laos, we're in the capital, Vientiane. I left the decision making to the boys for a few days... to get from Vang Vieng to here we hired a minibus at 3am. We didn't have a place to stay in either city so we layed in the lobby in Vang Vieng until 3am, drove 2.5 to Vientiane and then layed in the lobby here until 8am when we got our room. The whole time I was questioning the decision making skills of the boys... Never again haha. Needless to say we had a good long nap yesterday, walked around for a bit, splurged on an amazing dinner (splurged by Laos standards it was really only $15). And then got to bed early.
Today we stumbled across a Laos food festival which was fun. They were having some sort of cooking competition- whatever they were cooking looked REALLY spicy! We roamed around a really cool night market on the Mekong river tonight, I bought a cool dress.


We fly back to Thailand tomorrow morning. Through Bangkok to Ko Samui (an island beside Koh Phangnan) and then we'll take a quick ferry to Koh Phangnan. My two girlfriends from fire got to Bangkok 2 days ago and I'll get to see them tomorrow! We said goodbye to 2 guys we'd been travelling Laos with from Montreal. They headed back to Hanoi, Vietnam and then back to Canada. I hear it's record low temperatures at home. It is hooootttt here! So hot. I've really enjoyed Laos, it is beautiful and the people are so nice. Looking forward to meeting up with friends and relaxing on the beach!

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