Luang Prabang

I'm in a small town in Laos which is a bit less touristy and has a much nicer atmosphere, so I'm a bit happier. Nice to get away from the Friends soundtrack. It is surrounded by a pretty river and mountains. I arrived alone and the town was completely empty, so I started getting that feeling of dread of "how the hell am I going to pass two days here?". As my friend Laura said though "When you are traveling alone, you know you will be alone for a while, but you don't know for how long--it could be a few hours, or a few days til you meet some decent people". So that was going through my mind when I was wandering around, and luckily within a few hours, I sat next to some people at a 50 cent vegetarian buffet and hung out with them all night and then took a tuk-tuk with them to waterfalls today. I hung out mostly with a canadian and an aussie, but we stuffed the tuk-tuk (more of a truck with a bench in the back) full of people to save money, so it was filled with people who were french, german, dutch, and swedish--quite a mix. I ended up on the floor of the tuk-tuk with a guy hanging out the side--we were doing it Laos style!