character, it also looked incredibly pretty as candles danced in the warm evening breeze and the air buzzed with a unique blend of worldwide languages. Neither of us felt we could ever tire of this place and I really hope that Louang Prabang can retain its own blend of culture without ever getting spoiled as a result of tourism. After spending time wandering round the ground level stalls we found ourselves at the food market, a place which would normally fill us both with dread but with the large number of Buddhists the range of veggie food was great, and they don’t seem to eat anything really horrid or show any particular signs of animal or insect cruelty. We came across a vegan stall which was basically a fill up your plate for around 50p each - just amazing. So naturally we filled our plates as full as we could and sat down to enjoy our vegan delight! It was top notch and guessed we’d becoming here again before our time was up here!

Our guest house was an early to bed, early to rise, kind of place so we needed to be back before 10.30 p.m. We were pretty tired so knew this wouldn’t be a problem but we did spot a sports pub on the way back so popped in for a pint of good old beer Laos and watch the second half of the replay of where Man U failed to make it into the big boys league of European Cupsville!!! Hee he how we tittered at the look of thunder on Fergie’s face!!! After this footballing shock we made our way back and found that the place was almost locked up so we knew this definitely wasn’t the same kind of party town as Vang Vieng!!!

We spent the morning just checking out the immediate vicinity of the town, I’m not entirely sure if it is classed as a city as it is only quite small, but it is very beautiful all the same. We found the river and followed it as it wound it way around the edge of the town, it