Utopia with My Mann

Dana: Hello dear ones! I write to from Laos, it has been a while since I last wrote, so I'll catch you up on some of the latest.

We traveled from the south of Vietnam to the north. Vietnam is an exciting country full of culture, beautiful sights, delicious food and lots to do. We just spent the past 1.5 weeks traveling around Hanoi (the capital of Vietnam), touring Halong Bay on a junk (a junk is Chinese style sailboat with big beautiful sails designed in ancient times), trekking around Sapa and exploring the quiet city of Luang Prabang (Laos) for a few days. Tonight board a bus heading to Vientiene (capital of Laos) for 9 hours.


Deep thoughts with Captain Mann Pants


Sun setting in Halong Bay


Vietnam Crack...we are sooo hooked...(daily breakfast)


Dinner tonight is the best pho you've had in your life...coming right up!


...and for dessert, exotic fruit you can imagine with chilled coconut milk...yum!


Leaving Vietnam...you've been good to us! Here we come Laos!


Beautiful temples in Laos

Yesterday we rented a motorbike and explored some beautiful waterfalls. It is pretty damn hot here in Laos, the cool refreshing water of the falls was magestic to say the least! Traveling with Mary is always an adventure...and of course we had one on the way to the waterfalls. One of the down sides to not taking a tuk-tuk (a taxi of sorts) is that you don't know where you're going 100%, but there are so many upsides to renting your own bike that it was of no question to us once we found out how cheap it was.

Excited to be on bikes again!!

Just our luck we took one wrong turn (the sign did have an arrow pointing saying this way to the falls) and found ourselves off-roading on the motorbike. It was pretty funny! We ditched the bike and decided we'd be better off walking the "rest" of the road. We were so excited when we caught sight of a human being coming our way. He confirmed that we were going in the right direction, with no use of english. After not finding any waterfalls and only getting more and more hot we decided to head back out the road, where we found the main entrance only 1 minute up the road...

On our walk in the wild we came across some beautiful cows...but no waterfall



The majestic falls...worth it all!


Swim spot


nature and all its beauty...


Since Mary and I don't mess around when it comes to food and eating proper...we found some local goat cheese from a farm in Vang Vieng and fresh baguettes and made ourselves a little picnic out all the falls. A special shout-out goes to you Penny...you worked on a goat farm in Vang Vieng right?? And Paul...Mary said eating the cheese and bread with fruit made her think of you.

Gotta run now...heading to Utopia with my Mann