Friday, 13 February 2009

Canoeing in the mountains of Northern Laos...Solitude


This was my favourite day of the trip so far. We rented a traditional Laos canoe and headed up the Nam Ou river and into the mountains. Heading upstream proved really strenuous on some stretches where the current was stronger...but we made it a couple of km's upstream and spent the afternoon on a sand bank with a picnic of bananas and biscuits!


There was not a soul in sight and the only sounds were bird calls, the chattering of monkeys and the echos of our own voices. The journey back down stream took a third of the time and towards the end we rode the rapids, as i was sitting at the front at this point i got drenched!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

m and d, c and m, v and l,s and h, and gs all very jealous, keep enjoying urself , love all, keep up the blog x