Luang Prabang! Whoo Hoo, finally arrived.

Well, Luang Prabang. Once collonised by the French, Laos has an abundance of French influence, in the architecture, the whole Cafe' scene, even language, and no more so than Luang Prabang. France in the Jungle basically. With the contrast of Asia with all the Temple's and of course asians. We got there and managed to get a cheap deal on a room as there were 12 of us, this seemed to work out quite nicely for most of us, although it is hard to keep track of 12 people, and eventually we broke apart for a while to go and see Luang Prabang.
Not a huge city, but a nice calm quiet, "readers" city. We had no books with us so went on some adventures instead.
The day after we arrived we booked a Tuk Tuk to take us to a waterfall we had heard about, can't remember the name, but we headed about 40 mins away bouncing around in the back of this truck tuk thing. On the way passed loads of amazing views, and trying to photgraph in the back of a moving vehicle isn't easy so won't be sharing too many of the views with you, but a few. We passed a lone Elephant with a saddle on him, and a sign reding "Elephant Services", we found it quite amusing. And almost stopped to hire him to finish the ironing for us.
As we drove the valleys and the mountains opened up to show us the vast greenness, if such a word, Paddy fields everywhere, glowing the most vibrant colours. It was exactly like you'd expect the hills of Southeast Asia to look like. Breath taking.