Luang Prabang

Yesterday's cooking class wasn't quite as good as the last one. It was more of a watch-your-meal-be-cooked kind of class. Oh well. The food was still delicious and we did learn about some of the ingredients used in Lao cooking. Some ingredients come from the jungle. Like spicy wood. Add it to a stew and it gives a spicy flavour to the dish. I don't think we'll find that wood in the jungles of Ottawa.

After cooking class we hopped on a tuk-tuk with some friends and headed to a nearby waterfall. If you haven't been to Southeast Asia, tuk-tuks are the taxis of this region. In Laos, they're small pickup trucks with seats in the back. Our tuk-tuk had to stop once on the 30 km ride to the waterfall for some roadside repairs. But we did make it to the waterfall and back. We swam in the turquoise pools below the waterfall. So beautiful. Unfortunately, our batteries died on our camera and we weren't able to photograph it.

Sign seen at the waterfall:

What's out.
Slipperyway.

It's raining today so we will probably hit the museum in town.

Luang Prabang's architecture is French Colonial. Quite pretty. We'll post some pics of the town soon.

We'll be in Laos for a few more days before flying to Cambodia.