Laidback Laos

a lot of stairs to climb!!!! down!!!

Sugarcane juice in a bag

Well,

Its our last day in Laos and we did shit all!

Yay!

Well, tomorrow we're going to a freezing cold waterfall 40mins away to experience a rare case of hyperthermia, well, I can't wait!

We were going to go bike riding today but the people here are silly and tried to charge us a full day fare for a half day?!!!!

I'm shocked!

Not happy Jan...

Victims of Landmines playing beautiful music at Angkor wat

Ok Its me, isabella now, Im only allowed 4-5 minutes!!! so best hurry lest harriet goes home in disgust!!!

Im under a tight rein these days, she tells me off most days, but she especially hates it when Im careless withe zipper on tha bag!!!!

But... all fOR good rEASON.... i LOST MY GOOD NEW SUNNIES YEsterday, but me thinks they were stolen!!!!

There is a sad sobstory asian soap in the background & its hard to concentrate!!!

Gosh... Ive been taking the most amazing & repetitious photos under the sun !!! It takes me 3-5 shots and approximately 52 minutes to get the 'non blurred' look!!!

Most days Harriet is furious when I suggest " lets take the camera!!"

So, I think this time we will upload or is it download some of them!!

You see we have such different tastes!!!

I like churches, temples & the sexy monks with their umbrellas & she likes taking pictures of anything that i cant take pictures of or take too long to take it!

Ho hum!!!!!: (

so.............

We love laos.. the people here are soft & gentle..... & they dont hassle like the last 2 countries!!!The begging in cambodia was the worst for me/us :

The people didnt seem to reach out & touch our hearts in the same way that the vietnamese did!!

Most boys we talk with seem to love cambodia; maybe its a boy thing... or maybe its the "killing field" experience!! who knows. here is where you get to fire guns each one a different price; you can even buy a cow for $100. & shoot it for another $200.00!!! work that logic out!!!!

I know Im generalising here; perhaps, if you had more time & could do a jungle trip or a treetop zipper( stay in a tree house & be zipped in a flying fox type contraption to another tree top house) you would love cambodia more; but we found it very americanised ( no surprises here!!!) & combined with reading the awfully shocking novel "sex slaves" didnt help either....

so back to laos....

& heres harriet...

The way she speaks of me its like Hitler has been reincarnated and put in the body of (to his disgust) a girl with 'brown eyes'.

Well, no, I'm sorry that I have to inform you, I am not hitler, nor his predecessor or wife... or child for that matter (hang on!), merely an innocent adolescent with boundaries unlike feral Isabella. I swear we are NOT related. It's just inconceivable!!!

Anyway..... Laos is amazing, I love the people, just tonight we were at the night markets in Luang Prabang (they are on every night) and we were looking at the handicrafts/textiles at a local H'mong ladies stall (but not really stalls they are on the ground) and her and her friend dressed me up in their traditional clothing (headdress and all!) I thought I looked like someone with downs syndrome let loose in Lucille Ball's wardrobe!!!

Isabella took a ('a' meaning a few hundred and my patience, once again. rapidly deteriorated) picture and we will show you them as soon as she fills up the memory card...for the 4th time (it won't be long soon!).

so, yeah here are some seriously outdated pictures cos we dont have a memory stick that works.....

So yes, just before the photos!!!;;;;;

we are off to thailand tomorrow... chieng mai.. Here we will stay for 3 days before we head down to bangkok & then fly to surat thani; where we will attempt to find a night boat to ko tao..

wish us luck... We'll need it!

more later.... as we need to pack to get up @ crow fart to get to the waterfall before we rush off to the a/port to catch a plane (

Angkor Watt Siem Riep