So yet again I'm rather lazy at actually writing on this thing! In my defence, I was doing a bunch of placement testing as well as teaching last week so was at work all day every day, but there is no excuse for the two weeks prior to that!

My pictures from Luang Prabang are here

I had a nice relaxing time there. It's a pretty small town in the middle of nowhere and as I've been there before i didn't feel like I had to rush around doing heaps of things. I did a fair bit of shopping (for a small town there are plenty of places to shop!) and ate lots of good food. Also sat in a lot of cafes in the town and by the river drinking cheap fruit shakes and had a foot massage every day! I did go to the temples in the centre of the town, and I also went to some museums - the Royal Museum and the Ethnology museum. Went to the top of the hill in the middle of town to watch the sun set one evening, and also saw lots of pretty things to buy in the night market. Managed to resist buying most of the things I wanted and I waited til the last night to do my shopping rather than buying everything on impulse which I though was rather restrained for me! I did go on the elephant/waterfall day trip again - it was the same one I did last time but it was good fun so I decided to do it again. This time I managed to climb all the way to the top of the waterfall!!! Was too lazy last time but this time I managed it and at the top you can take our shoes off and walk across the top of the waterfall. That was pretty cool! I also hired a bicycle and cycled out to some craft villages and temples outside the town. It was nice, but it was pretty hot for cycling. There was some nice scenery down by the river though. I went to a temple on the top of a hill on my back into the centre and felt rather unfit having to get off my bike and push it up the hill but I felt a bit better when I saw the locals who cycle everywhere also having to do that!! It was a nice break from Hanoi - there are no motorbike horns!!! It's a great place to go and relax, plus it was much warmer than in Hanoi so that was nice.