Well never actually made it to Muong Noi...stopped at Nong Kiaw instead, stayed three days, moved onto Luang Nam Tha, and will do a three day trek tomarrow with both Jorn(Holland) and Daniel(Germany). They're good company and it's nice for a change to be travelling with a group. Were going to make an all out effort to buy mountain bikes and bus them from here to Luang Probang, before starting on an all out charge South to Vang Vien and then on the Vientiene where we hope to sell the bikes...it's a long haul, but were planning it out, and are
following in the footsteps of one of Daniel's friends who lent us his itinerary complete with good stops etc. We hope to complete the journey 7-10 days after departing Luang Prabang. Went fishing with some locals in Nong Kiaw for two dollars US, went wadding up a good sized creek, throwing out a net, beating the water with sticks and catching minnows...but enough minnows make a meal, and by the end of the day we had a good snak of our deep fried minnows, that baby in the picture was our guides brother's. The man that led us out envited us (Daniel and Jorn and myself) to dinner at his parents. It was actually part of the death rite for his father who had passed on seven days earlier. It was a great experience, and all of us have wrist-fulls of these strings that all of the relatives tied to us for good luck, also got pretty drunk on the local rice whisky simply called "lao lao." Got an authentic hair cut two days ago complete with a shave... and what a shave, no water or anything and a razor-knife, it was incredibly painful, the local kids were laughing the whole time through, so anyways I'm looking sharp =]. Then an all day bus/truck travel day and here we are in Luang Nam Tha, anyways all is well...I'm over the fever and just have a small residual caugh, I'll keep you posted on how the lead up to the bike trip goes, we hope our trek will get us slightly conditioned but I think the first two days of riding will be tough. Love you all, Adios
P.S. I messed the pictures up, have too many to get on here, but will try again next time
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