ohhh. Laos...nok is happier than she looks

More Laos

A nice pic of Nok and our "tour guide". She informed us that she was ther eto guide us--to the "ticket booth" as it turned out. Anyway, she was cute.
Here is a cave pic, but doesn't do the caves justice. They were beautiful...Probably need some mad Harrissimo skills to take a photo in there.
Outside of the cave.

Nok during our river floating trip. Beautiful water and Beer Laos everywhere.

Oh God, It's Full of Snow

Had I known I was going to look like this....
Wasn't that shocking, really.
This IS shocking. Skiing without falling.

She never did figure out how to stop completely.
Note: Excellent posture.

Yes, Jay and Eun Byul finally dragged us out to go skiing. I don't look as bad as I thought, but I do look more than a bit dorky. Nok looks like an old lady in those baggy ski pants. Was fun. I only crashed about half a dozen times. Maybe the next trip will yield more backbreaking accidents. Note my excellent posture while skiing.

For people who can't ski, we look pretty confident here.

Also note that we skiied from 12-4 in the morning. Yes, land of the night skiing. Korea.

Back to Seoul the big city. Excellent pics of Seoul and ski courtesy of Jay.

Food For All In Laos

WHAT WE WERE EATING

WHAT HE WAS EATING

The Boating

We were there in Vientienne for a big boat race, which was a good thing, since the city seems to be boring otherwise. Here are some pics of that, courtesy of Gregor, the photo-toting Swissman (can you say that?). Enjoy...more to come.

Just above, the parking and food/shopping mania during the festivity. Is that Nok just in front in the white shirt? Probably not, since we didn't know Greg at this time, but it sure looks like her...little Laos girl that she is.

Some photos to start us off

Well, a bit ironic that I had Greg, Swiss camera toter, to send a DVD full of pictures to me only to post them on the WWW (^^), but here it is. A few to start off, and then I will be posting randomly, so check and see every once in a while.




Here are two landscape photos that capture what we saw in Laos. These are near Vang Vieng, which was a complete tourist trap, but a good time and, as you can see, a tourist trap for a reason...beautiful scenery.





Hiking through the rice paddies, on our way to a restaurant that barely functions anymore. We ate some sticky rice full of ants with some soup with flowers in it, which was a little bit better than the ant soup. Below, Luang Prabang at the breakfast haunt. This wasn't the best, but the view of the Mekong was cool, so we kept going back.

Biking and hiking...and funky little bridges. More on bridges in a later post.

The bearer of the light. A little battery with a light. Mine wasn't leaking acid, which was an advantage. Aaron wasn't so lucky ^^.

Vang Vieng and the surrounding caves. I was caved out after that day, but it was cool. Hotel view on the top left.

Finish off with a few winding roads that are so typical of Laos. Miss it. After looking at these, I want to go back. Soon enough.

Tastes Like Corn

Well, this is the little guy I ate in Thailand. Not the exact one--I was munching on his brethren. I wonder what PETA thinks about that? Are they pro-insect eating? No, it is not a cockroach, but sure looks a little like one. They call them "Meng Da". You can just call them delicious.