We woke up early to take in the Alms giving ceremony. Every morning the monks walk through the streets of Luang Prabang in order to collect food from the city people (and now tourists) to get them through the day. Following the ceremony we returned to our hotel and packed our bags. Following breakfast we got a tuk tuk to the bus station and evntually boarded a 15 passenger van from 1965 for the ride to Nong Khiaw. We left about 30 minutes late with 18 people on the bus. The bus ride was bumpy, the roads in Laos are terrible, and landslides had washed out many sections with temporary areas cut out of the hillside to pass the crumbled road. Eventually we made it, got settled into our guest house that would be home for the next 2 nights and went out to find some dinner and explore the small riverside town. Dinner was prolonged by the combination of dreadful service and a passing thunderstorm but such is life in the rainy season in Laos.
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