Our "intro" to Laos
Early in the morning on Saturday, Nov. 10th (4:30 a.m.!) our taxi driver was slated to pick us up for the trip to the airport. Only one problem -- he forgot! But, with a timely phone call he was able to arrive in sufficient time for us to easily make our Air Asia flight to Vientiane. Only one problem there -- on board the flight we got the announcement that Air Asia's computers were "down" so we couldn't take off! Almost two hours later we were finally in the air. But, apart from a 50-minute delay on the Lao Airlines flight to Luang Prabang, we certainly would have missed our connection.
On our first afternoon in Luang Prabang (after checking into our very nice hotel), we walked across a rickety bridge that Nancy didn't like at all (!) to get downtown where we wandered along the Mekong River and scoped-out the extensive
night market. On our first full day in the city we were fortunate to have a tuk-tuk driver, Mark, who took us to several temples prior to an hour-long ride on a road up-river to a scenic waterfall that we really enjoyed! (Mark also knew of a silk factory just out of town where Nancy found great prices and was able to make some nice purchases.) - rw
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