We traveled from our bungalow into the nearby village. On the way back, we met these kids, who were coming back from collecting firewood.

Jennifer shows them how to take pictures with her fancy camera.

Sarah helps out too.

This girl does not have a firewood bag, so she had to just carry back a big old log.

They thought we were pretty funny.

Flowers along the walkway at our resort.

More flowers.

On day two, we stopped at a second village.

Sarah is standing in the center of town. The main road was lined with people selling fabric, old currency, curios, hand carved doodads, etc.

One family distilled Lao-Lao, which is the local terrifically strong rice whiskey.

Lao t urkeys.

Further downriver, we came to a cave where people donate slightly damaged Buddha images.

If your Buddha gets broken, you don't throw it away. You save it for a festival day, and deliver it to this cave.

It's very hard to show just how MANY Buddha statues were collected here.

In the upper caves, no lights. So the thousands and thousands of Buddhas just chill in the pitch black. Taking flash pictures didn't work too well.

We arrive in Luang Prabang. Unesco deemed this town a World Heritage site, so. now several architect teams are constantly at work to restore all the Buddhist temples.

At the palace. The king used to rule all of Laos from Luang Prabang. Here, some obviously important Communist statue holds court.

If you are the king, it's handy to have your own gas station on the palace grounds.

More palace grounds. Sarah is in this picture.

Tuk-tuk driver asleep in the hammock.