I've just got soaked by a lady chasing me with a bucket of bloody water down the road! Dripping wet in the internet cafe at the moment. It's safe to say that the Songkam (water) festival celebrations are in full swing :) Dodging the locals is hard work though!

Anyway, Luang Prabang so far is great. The night market, which we've visited twice so far, is peaceful beyond belief and there is no such thing as hard-selling there. It's clean, organised and sells some of the best handicraft work is SE Asia - needless to say I've splashed the cash a little..

A very random thing happened yesterday too. Ketan and I were walking around the town (or the one main road of it) and a girl looked at me and called me over, I was thinking 'Hang on, who is this? Have I met her on our travels..?' It turns out it was Spruha - a girl I knew from Woodhouse College. I mean, really, what are the odds?! We both didn't know about each others travels. At night we bumped into her and a friend at a cosy bar and an American guy called Ashish that we'd met in Vang Vieng joined us at the table, and so on.. Luang Prabang has a early curfew where everything closes at midnight but outside the bars tuk-tuks offer a drive to the bowling alley. Hmm, bowling.. in Laos? Why not?! Turned out to be where a lot of both locals and backpackers hang out, drink & bowl and turned out to be quite the social event. Met some very eccentric people and won one game of bowling and came 2nd in the other - Not bad for a night's work ;-)

Today we've been chilling out again. The cafes we've been to are really nice, most of which actually look as if they've been taken from the South of France and been plonked in Luang Prabang - gorgeous surroundings and even better food.

Tomorrow we go to the Tat Kuang Si waterfalls, about 35km from town. It's been recommended by most travellers we've met in Laos so far..