Return from Laos: Sneak-Peek
Yes indeed, I HEART Laos!
I’m now back from the Land of a Million Elephants (though I personally saw but a mere 64 – more on that to come…) and I’m busily wading through the 1,546 photos of my 2 week Laos odyssey.
Furthermore, I start teaching again (after more than 6 months of decadent footloose and fancy-free here – it’s jolly-well about time I set nose-back-to-EFL-grindstone) on Saturday, so this will have to be just a quick sneak-peek at but a smidge of my (many) Laos adventures.
Much more to come in the coming weeks, but suffice the Elephant Festival was totally awesome, and I utterly HEART Laos!
As usual (for the TravelnLass) the cuisine ranged from the adventurous…
…to the subLIME! (Dinner at the Blue Lagoon – dessert was a refreshing gob of lime sherbert swimming in a sea of VODKA)
(Likewise as usual) dubious transport ranged from rickety boats…
…to (OSHA approved, NOT!) precarious ferry crossings.
No less than 30 gilded temples to gawk at…
Making a wish as I let a pair of chirping sparrows fly free, at the top of Wat That Chom Sii (300+ steps UP!) atop Mount Phousi
A lovely morning class in natural dying (I picked and smushed the indigo leaves myself!)
(Naturally) I grabbed a couple of geocaches! (for my geochums: GCTHFB and GC41D89)
And oh my! The night market crammed w/ all manner of luscious handicrafts went on and on – for nearly a half mile!
All too soon it was time to head back "home" to Vietnam…
"Sabaidee" indeed! "Hello" and (likewise) "Goodbye" to Laos – I will definitely return again one day!
About the Author
Dyanne Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion,and I’ve always lived life “like-a-kid-in-a-candy-store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been: This ain’t a dress rehearsal, folks!
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Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion, and I’ve always lived life “like a kid in a candy store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been:
The chicken feet……whenever I ordered from a menu I couldn’t read, like in China, I’d always cross my fingers and hope I don’t and up staring at a plate of chicken feet or beaks or whatever. It happened far too often…
I hear ya, Daniel. g-knows w/o pictures on the menu, one is surely asking for trouble even here in Vietnam.
I’d seen the chicken feet all over Vietnam, and finally bit-bullet and ordered a pair in Laos just to see what I’d been missing – NOT! But beaks, you say? Uh, not sure I could even nibble on that.
Didn’t you just adore Laos? You really made the most of your time there! I somehow missed out on the Blue Lagoon and that sinful dessert – shame on me!
That I do cosmoH (adore Laos), and I only explored but a bit of the north of it. I definitely will return to Laos one day soon. And yes, my dinner at the Blue Lagoon was to fantastic – I’ll be writing a post on it soon.
We miss you.Take care .
Well hey there – thanks for stopping by. I miss you too. I ADORE the Forward House there in Chiang Mai, and you were so kind and helpful on my little recon trip there.
As you can see – though it was a very tough decision, I’ve opted to stay here in Vietnam a bit longer and give Dalat a go. But something tells me that one day I may well join the expats there in Chiang Mai for awhile, so I look “forward” (pun intended) to seeing you again!
I’m glad to see you’re exporting puns to the far corners of the globe.
And I look forward to many more photos!
Ah yes Paul, leave it to you to catch the “sublime” pun – I wondered if anyone would notice it. 😉