Thursday, November 15, 2007

update on the last few weeks...Nepal-Bangkok-Laos

So...this is to update you on what i have been doing in the last two weeks...
After the amazing trek, and an equally awesome three days rafting we headed bac kto Kathmandu to enjoy the luxuries of staying in a HOUSE with a friend, Cindy who mum met on her trip to Nepal...Was pretty excited to sit on a couch and cook a meal after three months!
We spent three days there(i think..i lose track of days!), one of which i went on a day trip up towards the tibetan border to do a bungy jump....At 160ms its ONE of the highest in the world...Bbut no1 could actually tell me where there is one that is higher...anyway it was pretty scary but very exhilirating too! Glad i did it...There was also this giant canyon swing that has a free fall of 8secs which was more frightening than the bungy jump....a mad adrenalin rush...

We then flew to Bangkok to spend a few days there organising our Laos visa's and transport to the border...IIt was strange being in such a large, developed city after being in poverty for so long...Felt a fair bit of culture shock in reverse....Realised how much stuff we cluster our lives with that just isn't necessary!
Did act like a bit of a tourist by going to the floating markets with a friend of Ell's who we bumped into...
WE then spent a crazy 24 hours making our way to the very south of Laos to the area known as the four thousand islands....A very beautiful place...Spent a few days there riding around on pushys and reading in our hammocks on the balcony of our $2 bungalow....Laos is crazy cheap! Even more so than India and Nepal..Which i found quite suprising....
From what we have seen so far its a very beautiful and laid back country! and no1 trys to rip you off which is nice!
Tomorrow we are going on a two day trek through an area that is famous for its coffee plantations...apparently Laos coffee is quite famous in the coffee world...so that will be cool to be trekking again, whilst enjoying some good coffee!
Will also check out some waterfalls before heading up to the capital, Vientiane to meet up with a friend...
The volunteering that we had planned in Laos has kinda fallen through so we are trying to find some other volunteering to do but had no luck as such....If we can't find anything here we may head into Vietnam and try our luck there!
Till next time xoxo

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