No water puppets – Hanoi, Vietnam
Suffering from an excess of rice wine, we narrowly avoid a Vietnamese Water Puppets show in Hanoi
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Bad Prawns – Halong Bay, Vietnam
Useful lesson of the day: If asked how your Vietnamese meal tastes, don’t say “yum-yum”. It sounds like the Vietnamese for “I’m horny”, which can confuse the waitress. Halong Bay was the first UNESCO site and is a series of 3,000 islands rising steeply out of 17,000sq km of sea, and means Descending Dragon Bay. We had a boat to…
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Something fishy – Vientiane, Laos
Visiting a Vietnamese fish sauce factory on the way to Vientiane
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Tubing – Vang Vieng, Laos
Floating down the river on a tractor tyre, in Vang Vieng. It's good fun, but probably not great for the town.
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Friends – Vang Vieng, Laos
A long day of driving, a lot of drinking and the end of the day spent laying on sofas watching re-runs of Friends in Vang Vieng
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Masterchef – Luang Prabang, Laos
Everyone else had an undeserved lie-in whilst I got up and went to a cookery course at the Tum Tum Cheng restaurant and cooking school. It started off with a shopping trip to a local market where we strolled amongst the fresh vegetable and rotting fishes, getting an understanding of the different ingredients (and swearing to avoid any more fish…
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Early Start, Late Finish – Luang Prabang, Laos
Our first day in Luang Prabang, considered to be the Jewel of Laos. We visited the King's Museum containing gifts from world leaders
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Better food – Luang Prabang, Laos
A small outpost of French cuisine in Laos provided us with freshly baked baguettes with unsalted butter and jam
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Slow Boat to Laos – Pak Beng, Laos
A short walk from our overnight hotel was the river marking the Thai-Laos border. Arriving early to try and avoid the crowds we got jumbled up in amongst a huge Chinese tour group, all wearing matching hats, coats and bags in a fetching shade of green. Strangely I also saw a dog in a negligee which I guess is Vietnamese…
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