The last day of September and our second day in Luang Prabang led us to the Mekong again and to hire a slow boat for a trip up the river. Wer started on the boat at about 10am and first stop was a village where they hand make paper and weave with silk and cotton.
We all got to see the paper making process from pounding the reeds to pulp and then socaking in water before soaking and setting on mesh to dry. Jordon is the proud owner of a new handmade light shade while Luke has a new journal to record his travel adventures in once his current one (which aunty Liz bought him) is full.
We also watched a number of women weaving with silk and saw the silk rolled arond traditional bamboo holders as well as the dislays in the makers house - we didnt buy any weaving at the village
The second stop was at a village conveniently known as the Whiskey village as they produce a quite strong (55% alcohol) rice whiskey (I think they used to call it moonshine!!) and after we all tried it (yes, we all.....Luke and Jordan might never get that chance again) we bought a small bottle which we hope to sdhare with the family after Christmas lunch - only a small amount each but that will be enough I'm sure.
Final stop for the day and in fact the major reason for our trip was to visit Pak Ou caves (or the Buddha caves) which is inside the sheer wall of a large sandstone cliff. The caves weren't as good as we expected although we did expect the large array (over 300) Buddha statues inside - I guess you can rarely see it just like the postcards in real life.
Nonetheless we went through the small lower
Our trip back in the boat was fun as we were going downstream so moved fairly fast....the boys got to sit on the roof of the boat for our photo shoot.
All in all a great day. David
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