Another Early (and beautiful) Morning

Looking forward to seeing the morning alms giving, a beautiful cultural experience, Antony, (the Auzzie) and I got up at the crack of dawn (5am to be exact) and wandered over to the main street to get a good seat. Turns out, alms giving is at 6:30am not 5:30am, thanks guesthouse clerk. An hour later, nearly 200 monks from different wats around the city (some as young as 8 or 9) dressed in beautiful orange robes walked down the street to collect the offerings. I had been told that they collect it and then when they get back to the wats they dish it out and eat it as one of their two meal a day. I now have a feeling they must get some other food as well because I find it hard to believe that monks live off sticky rice and candy bars, though this may be the dream diet of any 9 year old boy lol. Below is a photo of a group of them heading back to their Wat.

And the night got even better...

Already pleased from finding new an yummy food to eat I was wandering around the market trying not to buy things and look what I found!! It was a whole display of gelato, like 8 flavors of deliciousness that had no milk and no sugar. I got three scoops and I'm going back tonight. Heaven... :)

New Foods!

My dinner at the night market last night were these Vietnamese spring rolls. They were amazing with a yummy sauce of sugar, chilies and lime juice. Drool. It was so nice to find a new food to eat :)

Night Market in Luang Prabang

Yesterday after cycling around the city - two people on a one person bike, three on a tandem (they have seats on the bumper, really hilarious and so much fun) we parked and walked around the food market:

Sunset from That Phu Si

We walked to the top of a big hill in the centre of town to watch the sun set from a temple. It was a beautiful, almost peaceful moment were it not for the other 100 odd people with cameras snapping the same photos lol.

Utopia lounge 2

Note the commie flag and bomb decor. We spent an amazing evening here playing jenga, UNO and smoking sheesha.

A young monk

I love all of the orange robed monks that walk around here. It's so beautiful to see them, usually in a group, walking with their umbrellas to shade them from the sun.