Luang Prabang

Sunday/Monday 15/16 Dec 2013, 0km

Sunday was very much a rain write off, as it bucketed it down like a bad Glastonbury. All that was left to do was to drink tea by day and wine by night (yes, wine!). I did manage to fit a visit in to the ethnographic museum and a coffee shop but that about covers.

Luckily I'm reading one of possibly the worst books I've ever read which is so bad it's constantly making me laugh out loud. Every SE Asia cliché and a plot that seems to be a supernatural version of Platoon mixed with Apocalypse Now and the worst excesses in any American Vietnam war history you may ever have read (some lifted pretty much directly from Michael Herr's Dispatches). It needs editing badly and it has been. Look here's corporal Curtis. Wait, did I say corporal Curtis? Suddenly in the next paragraph he's been busted down to private. But wait! Now he's a corporal again. And now he's been blown up by a claymore making him incorporeal I guess...

Anyway...

On Monday the rain had stopped although temperatures had dropped some 10 degrees or so. Fine opportunity to visit some Wats, do general sight seeing then drink too many pina coladas in a travellers bar.

Luang Prabang in the rain

This is where the Khmer Rogue went wrong... You need to get buy in!

National museum

Detail on a Wats wall