Once in a while you just get lucky when you are traveling. I spent three days in Vien VAng, a buetiful mountain town in N. Loas. Which is know for it sheer granite cliffs, calm River and alots of cool caves and also town that has bar that play Friends and simpson all day long; kind of weird. For my rock climbing friends this place is must! You could climb so many first acesents in few days it make your head hurt.
Back to point of this story. I end up hanging out with a Brit (alex) that lives in Thailnad and is fluent in Loa and Thai and has a Lao girlfriend. We went to market to get some real Loa food and ended up befriending some loa women. They quickly asked us come and have dinner with them in their village. Which sounded like great experience; I figured that village was few kilameter away, no big deal. They bought whole bunch vetagibles and few still alive fish and 2 kilos of noodles and grabbed a tuktuk (3 wheel taxi) and we were off and we kept going and going 24kilmeter out we stop at small buetiful town in middle of no where. We bribed the tuk tuk drive to stay so we could go back with free dinner and beer. I got check out their house and then we went and made dinner on the river.
The way we ate the food was taking some of the lettuce or cabbage and putting some noddles in it then some fish, then some more veges and finally some sweet hot sauce and wrap and eat. It was great food and fun although most the time I had no clue what was going on, but we all laughted and laughted and held and played with the three babies that some women had. After dinner we went back to their place were they insisted we stay the night, which been fine with me, but other couple needed get back and we told tuk tuk driver that we go back with him so off we went. It quite a day.

The last few days I been in launge Paungban a beutiful french town in the mid-North. I met two travelin partners Mark and Tao and have hung out with them exploring this town and all it's wats. They alot fun and tommorrow all three of us are taking a boat up the Mekong River for day long boat trip two see the jungle and float the river. Then up to national park to do some trecking and then I will started heading towards Vietnam.