Hey all, sorry for the delay between posts, here's my excuse:
After Christmas I headed up to Luang Prabang. Fairly nice town and the nearby Bear Park and waterfall were cool, but it was way too touristy for my tastes. So I headed up to far flung Phongsali by boat with my friend Micheal. Three uneventful (but relaxing) days later and we had arrived.
Phongsali is crazy: the highest city in SE Asia, they only have power for 5 hours a day, restaurants can only cook a couple of different dishes (if they're even open, which they usually aren't), and you get woken up at 5:30 every morning by communist propoganda being broadcast around town over loudspeakers. I loved it!
No tourists means no stupid tourist kitsh in the markets, I got to do a great trek with Micheal and some girls we met. If you don't mind squat toilets and bitter cold evenings (though the night sky up there is unparaleled), then it's a great place to check out. Just don't expect any luxuries, or even half-comfortable beds, for that matter.
Making my towards Thailand now. After a brutal 8 hour bus trip over dirt roads which are more akin to goat trails, I'm pretty beat, so I apologize for any typos or muddled sentences and wish you all the best! Pictures when I get a better connection.
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I dunno, I think I'd prefer a nice, warm bed to that.
And no we don't have RB3 yet...
But I did buy a bunch of games from Steam. Although the bad thing with Steam is they have such awesome deals that you end up spending more money than you would have originally.
Greetings from my new home in Lethbridge! Right now all of Alberta north of Calgary is under heavy snowfall warning. Here? It's +3. Hope Asia is treating you well, can't wait to see more photos. :)
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