Chapter 41 year 6 (2016-2017) Lovely Laos

09/21/20 • 22 min

Travels with John Smith

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Travels with John Smith

Chapter 41 year 6 (2016-2017)

Lovely Laos

-Slow boat down the Mekong river

-Pak Ou caves

-silk and snake whiskey

-5:00 am with the monks

-The book boat
- buddhas and sunsets

-night market tasty

-moon bears

-waterfall swimming

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Travels with John Smith

Chapter 41 year 6 (2016-2017)

Lovely Laos

-Slow boat down the Mekong river

-Pak Ou caves

-silk and snake whiskey

-5:00 am with the monks

-The book boat
- buddhas and sunsets

-night market tasty

-moon bears

-waterfall swimming

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Travels with John Smith - Chapter 41 year 6 (2016-2017) Lovely Laos

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Travels with John Smith

Chapter 41, year 6 (2016-2017)

Lovely Laos

We walk down a thin dirt path towards the wide muddy brown Mekong river. There are neat paths of vegetable gardens on either side of the path. We are in Luang Prabang in Laos, on the way to see the Pak Ou caves ( a sacred buddhist site with thousands of buddhas inside) and a village where they weave silk and cotton.

We step on to a long, flat boat, kind