John and I left Luang Prabang today for a 6 hour bus trip south. Luang Prabang was fun, a small touristy area surrounded by beautiful mountains. The bus trip was around a mountain making it a windy, but really an incredibly beautiful trip.
Yesterday we took a tuk-tuk to the waterfall in Luang Prabang. Really pretty turquoise water and a preserve area for a tiger and some bears-yes they were behind a fence, though not a very high one-I really think the bears could get out if they wanted, but maybe not because they all looked pretty content in their area behind the fence. We climbed to the top of a hill with a wat at the top for a view of the surrounding area...really nice-green for miles. Laos is definitely very beautiful. It is not very built up which I assume would make their economy suffer, but definitely does something for their landscape andfor the air...it feels cleaner here than it did in Chiang Mai. Luang Prabang had a small night market and quite a few western restaurants. I haven't had any food here that is different from Thai food yet.
Another really cool thing about Laos, there are tons of butterflies. Whole groups of white butterflies fluttering in a group and random large monarch butterflies-some blue, some gold (are the blue ones called monarch butterflies too?). I tried to take a picture, but it doesn't quite capture the sight as sometimes pictures cannot.
love, Me
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