Life Eaters

Day 6
Woke up at about 7-ish and had our usual hotel breakfast. Then we split up, the girls going out for massage and Mark and I taking a walk around town. We’re now out of the the super crazy neighborhood and are in a much more relaxed area. I think we’re starting to get the hang of this town.

Mark and I walked down to the 1000 year old temple of literature, where there were at least a half dozen weddings going on.

We got rained on pretty hard, and ended up getting a little lost walking down some long wet alleys, but it ended up being a pretty good walking adventure. We met back at the tailor where I got my final fitting for my suit coat and picked it up. Then, after packing our bags and checking out of the hotel, we spent our last two hours in town doing our own mini street-food tour. Sitting on tiny plastic stools in the dingy corner of a bustling street-side stall, we sampled beautifully crispy, fried morsels with noodles and salad. Then, we crouched on the sidewalk next to a smiling elderly Vietnamese woman as she cooked us up some fried tofu on her homemade grill.


Then, off to the airport to fly to Laos.

We landed in Luang Prabang and we loved the town the moment our cab left the airport and even more by the time we made it through town to our hotel. This town has a calmness settled over it. It’s not so busy like Hanoi, merchants do not call out to you from their stalls, there’s little traffic and people are friendly. There’s also the occasional monk walking around. We went out to diner the. To the night market, where even some of the sellers were just napping. We’re all wishing we had more time to spend here.