I took a sunset tour on the Mekong my last night here. I hadn’t planned on doing it, but the tout that was selling it said that it was only 6000kip (about $0.80). I couldn’t believe the price and must have asked him about five times, “6000” I even made the statement that, “that’s really cheap.” He nodded his head and I returned when it was time for the boat to leave the dock. The only thing that changed was the price, it was now 60,000kip (about $7). I decided that I didn’t like feeling like I was being tricked so I declined and walked along the bank of the river taking photos. After about ten minutes the guy calls me over and lowered the price to 40,000 kip so I said okay. In my opinion, 6,000 kip was too cheap and the roughly $5 that I spent on the 1-hour cruise was fair. I got some nice photos and enjoyed being on the boat so I was satisfied and I’m assuming that the guy was satisfied as well.

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Just another photo of people living their normal lives. I don’t take a lot of touristy photos of things, but when it comes to people being ‘people’ I can’t seem to take enough.
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Yet another photo of a riverboat on the Mekong River
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Sunset on the Mekong.
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River boats on the Mekong during sunset.
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Monks disembarking off a ferry from across the Mekong.
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Every now and then I feel like I just have to take a photo of myself for posterity. This is one of them. I took it in front of a stupa in Luang Prabang
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Main street at night. I think this was Halloween night. I don’t think you can see it in this photo, but there were lots of kids dressed up and hitting the stores for candy.

 

ken curtis personal site, Luang Prabang
Even though monks are very common, there is still something special about seeing them. It makes spotting them even better when they are doing something normal like listening to music.

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