Voyage Of The Odd Essay » Mekong http://voyage-of-the-odd-essay.com A Travel Journal Tue, 31 May 2011 11:25:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Another Day, Another Country: Now in Laos http://voyage-of-the-odd-essay.com/2009/02/05/another-day-another-country-now-in-laos/ http://voyage-of-the-odd-essay.com/2009/02/05/another-day-another-country-now-in-laos/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:10:49 +0000 Paul Freeman http://voyage-of-the-odd-essay.com/?p=55 Well I haven’t updated for a couple of weeks, Chiang Mai was good to me and I met up with a whole bunch of different groups of  people from else where in my travels, and now I’m in Laos after spending two days on the slow boat down the Mekong River (Which I’ll write about soon) going straight from Spicythai Backpackers to their sister hostel Spicylaos Backpackers I at once bumped into another group I’d been hanging out with back in Chiang Mai, and while it was tempting to head of to Vang Vieng to go tubing I decided the hit on my budget would be too big, and so I’m going to chill out here in Luang Prabang for a few days and see how I take to Laos, I don’t know all that much about the country so a bit of research is  needed! I do know th at I have over one million kip (The Laos currency) so I’m going to look forward to spending my million over the next week.

Right now I’m staying at Spicylaos Backpackers which is actually a UNESCO world heritage building, which I’ll write about down the road.

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