We bumped into Sean and Katy who we met in Hoi An and spent a day with them touring around the town, we found a rickety bamboo bridge that you had to pay to cross as the locals have to rebuild it every year. On the other side we went into this really nice open air restaurant, we originally were just going to have a beer but decided to stay and have the beef fondue! It was brilliant and a great way to spend the day with Sean and Katy hearing about their adventure and what they're doing next. We then went to see a temple which was 300 odd steps up a hill in the center of town, it had the most amazing views and added to our now many sunset pictures.
The next day we joined an activity day which started off with a morning mountain bike. The bikes were a bit rubbish and we had issues with our chains but it was good fun anyway, the views were brilliant and topped off when we got down to the river and jumped into a kayak, five minuets later we were at the bottom of the most incredible waterfall we've seen so far which had a group of elephants in the bottom section. This was a bit touristy and I was sad to see the elephants being hit by their keepers but I guess this is how they do it here. We then jumped into the kayaks and had a very extreme 3 hour boat ride, well kind of extreme!
Luang Prabang was so much fun, we really didn't want to leave but Chiang Mai was calling so we took a 2 day slow boat up the Mekong river towards Thailand.
Mike and Steph
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