21st 22 of April

 DOWN THE MEKONG RIVER.

Today we got up really early and got in the car to go to the border of Thailand and Laos. It was an hour and a half drive to the border. When we got there we had to get our passports checked before we got on a long boat to get across the Mekong River to Laos. When we got across to Laos we had to sign some papers before we got on our boat to take us down the Mekong to Luang Prabang. On the way to Luang Prabang we stoped at a Hmong Village (local hill tribe) but I didn`t go up because I was asleep on the boat so I didn`t get to go. We got on the boat and headed to Luang Say Lodge to stay the night. We slept in bamboo huts, which leaked in the night because we got a lot of rain. In the morning we got up and had breakfast before getting back on the boat for another day. Along the way we stopped at another local village, which made there own rice whiskey, it blew your socks off. We got back on the boat to go further down river to the caves of a thousand buddas it was awesome. The next stop was Luang Prabang it was about time too. Our driver was there to pick us up and take us to our hotel; it was a five-minute drive not to fare from the river. Later on we went out for dinner I wasn`t really hungry. Then we went back to the hotel and went to bed.