Things of Laos

Lovely and not so lovely things of Lovely Laos, our fave place so far (even better than Fiji!):

• Sticky rice - the Lao people eat about 500g of sticky rice each, for every meal, every day. And they still love it.
  
• Beer Lao, so crisp, so delicious, so cheap!
• Karaoke on the bus. Dreadful, dreadful karaoke.
  
• Lao Lao ('whisky')
• Stunned silence, followed by "What, don't you know how?", followed by giggles - The response we got from everyone when we said we'd been married for almost 5 years but have no children.
• Bugs on sticks - They'll basically eat anything that moves.
• "You buy one five thousand" - Sung by all the little girls, in exactly the same tune, when trying to sell trinkets to tourists.
• Monks!
  

Debs