"Jewel of the Mekong - Luang Prabang" Yamahuh's photos about Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep by TravelPod blogger Yamahuh titled "Jewel of the Mekong - Luang Prabang" Yamahuh's travel blog entry: "'Jewel of the Mekong'; Luang Prabang, Laos: December 23rd - 27th 2007 Our first impressions of Luang Prabang are mixed. It is full of western travelers, guesthouses, hotels and restaurants and appears a bit 'glitzy' but at the same time it is also stunningly pretty. Small, tidy backyards with blossoming flowers, neat gardens, winding alleys, beautiful temples and French colonial architecture are all wrapped up into one intoxicating package. However, now is not the time for sight seeing; after our long and moderately uncomfortable trip down the Mekong we are relishing the idea of a hot shower and comfy bed, so we grab our backpacks and begin to search for the hotel we had booked. In a back and forth flurry of e-mail correspondence, we had arranged for the Senesouk Guesthouse to reserve two rooms for us and the entire first week of the trip had been geared towards getting here in time to avail ourselves of those reservations. For some strange reason there was no address included in any of the e-mails and so after a couple of directionally impaired false starts and a determined slog through town we finally find it nestled between a local restaurant and another guesthouse on the main street; Sakkaline road. Unfortunately the balcony room that we had reserved and confirmed is not ...



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