After a lovely week in India we have landed in Laos and have the next week to spend here between two cities, Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng. We booked a tour tomorrow with a boat ride on the Mekong River, a stop at a local village, a waterfall visit and a 40 kilometer bike ride back. It may rain all day tomorrow, should make for quite the adventure. And frankly after a week of Indian food, we could use the exercise. Kris went a little looney this morning and started using his packed suitcase as weights:)
Luang Prabang is a sweet little town right on the Mekong River. Unfortunately we are not the only white faces in the town, which was pretty much the experience we had in Mumbai. Everywhere we went people stared at us like we were on parade. I guess that happens when you are Bollywood stars:) But, alas here is Luang Prabang have yet to be discovered, we'll give them a few more days. Our guesthouse is located right by the night market, which they have every night. It's loaded with all types of handicrafts and Beer Loa T-shirts (the local brew). I wish that we could buy tons of stuff to bring home, but unfortunately we'll have to carry whatever we purchase for the next 30 days, so we'll probably just pick one lucky item.
Surprisingly we didn't find any markets like this in Mumbai, but maybe we were looking in the wrong places (The restaurants, just kidding:)). We did make it to Namita's brother's store before we left and made a few purchases, they will be shipping it to us. He is an artist and buys hand crafted items made in India and sells them at his 3 bungalow store, on for furniture, one for textiles, and one for jewelry and small home items. Aneesh and Namita's home is mostly furnished and decorated with items from the store. The furniture is especially amazing, but way too expensive to get back home:(
India was a great experience and we'd love to go back. Jet lag hit us harder than expected and we didn't quite feel settled until Saturday and had to leave Monday. It would have been nice to have one more week. Mumbai is a crazy place with life flying at you every minute from every which direction. Aneesh took the week off and he and Namita were amazing hosts. We hit up all the hot spots, met their friends who are all really nice and pretty much lived like kings. And we did manage to get invited to a wedding in November, along with 500 other guests. Now that would be an experience.
We already miss baby Niel, who was just too sweet and cute for words. It was hard to say goodbye to them all at the airport, not knowing when we'll see them again. But we are excited to venture off on our own and see what kind of trouble we can get into.
Luang Prabang is a sweet little town right on the Mekong River. Unfortunately we are not the only white faces in the town, which was pretty much the experience we had in Mumbai. Everywhere we went people stared at us like we were on parade. I guess that happens when you are Bollywood stars:) But, alas here is Luang Prabang have yet to be discovered, we'll give them a few more days. Our guesthouse is located right by the night market, which they have every night. It's loaded with all types of handicrafts and Beer Loa T-shirts (the local brew). I wish that we could buy tons of stuff to bring home, but unfortunately we'll have to carry whatever we purchase for the next 30 days, so we'll probably just pick one lucky item.
Surprisingly we didn't find any markets like this in Mumbai, but maybe we were looking in the wrong places (The restaurants, just kidding:)). We did make it to Namita's brother's store before we left and made a few purchases, they will be shipping it to us. He is an artist and buys hand crafted items made in India and sells them at his 3 bungalow store, on for furniture, one for textiles, and one for jewelry and small home items. Aneesh and Namita's home is mostly furnished and decorated with items from the store. The furniture is especially amazing, but way too expensive to get back home:(
India was a great experience and we'd love to go back. Jet lag hit us harder than expected and we didn't quite feel settled until Saturday and had to leave Monday. It would have been nice to have one more week. Mumbai is a crazy place with life flying at you every minute from every which direction. Aneesh took the week off and he and Namita were amazing hosts. We hit up all the hot spots, met their friends who are all really nice and pretty much lived like kings. And we did manage to get invited to a wedding in November, along with 500 other guests. Now that would be an experience.
We already miss baby Niel, who was just too sweet and cute for words. It was hard to say goodbye to them all at the airport, not knowing when we'll see them again. But we are excited to venture off on our own and see what kind of trouble we can get into.
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