February 19, 2010

Pak Beng, we hardly knew ye (misadventures in Laos)

We thought we had left the beaches behind in Thailand. We were wrong:
The 2 day slow boat from Huay Xai to Luang Prabang has been described as “a floating backpacker ghetto” (thank you Wikitravel, our new favorite source of pithy travel advice). It’s a pretty apt description for a boat crammed full [...]