Got up early to go and do our caving and kayaking - oh yes I have finally committed to a whole day organised tour! It was a lovely and relaxed day, just me, Nathan and two other people (americans) who had been teaching in Korea. We stopped at a couple of caves along the river and did a bit of trekking to get to and through one of them. Both were relatively unspectaular visually, but was still pretty cool walking by torchlight and scrambling on the rocks (had the wrong flip flops on so was a bit slow!) One, named the 'sleeping cave' acquired it's name from the war (apparantly Laos is south east asias most bombed country) when people hid and slept there, and the other 'water cave' took more of a climb to get to and would ordinarily have water running through the 150 metre length of it.
Lunch was pretty cool as they had made a camp fire near the river, and so we had rice, baguette and meat and veg on scews, ah the outdoor life. I would love to go travelling where that is all I did - just travel with a backpack along the river making camp along the way. Maybe next time! Nathan did it in Lower Zambezi where 'wild africa still exists'...! (In the Mana Pools region he told me to write.)
We finished Kayaking at about 4.30 (I think we annoyed our guides because we took out time and I let Nathan do most of the paddling on the way home as I lay back and drank my beer...!) We went to sit to watch the sunset in hammocks at bucket bar which although is the place to be at night is actually pretty dead during the day! Walking home we stopped for food at another place with a view of the river so really made the most of the day and river / mountain setting methinks. Was so knackered went home, showered and went to bed early. Enjoying spending time with Nathan and talking about continuing to travel together although he's on somewhat of a different budget than me! He seems also to be spontaneous and open minded and while he is a plan of where he wants to go, he also flexible so I think it could work well. It is also nice to be with someone nearer my own age.
The crowd I have been travelling with is beginning to disintegrate as people move on at different times. Was pretty funny upon returning to the guest house as they were all obviously competely wasted after a second day of tubing. I entered Bas and Davids room to find Erin, Serenna, Jonathan and Jack posing in various states of undress, and the guys wearing the girls bikinis taking photo's for facebook...! Is always is amusing to look upon such situations with sober eyes. Jack made me laugh the most he obviously really enjoyed dressing up in women clothes and was rather proud of it....
Money spent: Diving and Caving 16 USD (12 quid), Milkshake 5,000 (42p) Coke 5,000 meal (baked potatoe with tuna) 25,000 (2.10) kip, Lao Beer 10,000 (85p) TOTAL: 15.37
Best thing: Kayaking
Worst thing: Er...?
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