Our guide, Sai, from Mekong Smile cruises picked us up from our hotel at 6:45 and we met our travelling companions Michelle and Lance from San Francisco. As it turned out, they were our only travelling companions and we had a huge boat to ourselves. On our first day we stopped at the caves at Pak Ou. The caves are full of Buddhas of all sizes. They have been placed there mainly by those sailing down the river over the past 300 years to ask for a fortunate voyage.
The scenery and the weather were equally stunning as we ploughed on for our halfway point stop, Pak Beng. We stayed at the Riverside Lodge which is traditional but not in the 50USD bracket.
After a sound sleep we embarked on day two. A very relaxing day
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