Paula Henihan - blog

Just off the slow boat down the Mekong river, dodging rocks, rolling through currents. The trip from Thai boarder down to Luang Prabang took two seven -hour journeys with a stop over night in Pak Beng. Our trip included a crash into the rocks after which our driver, who stripped down to his undies, swam under the boat, detached the warped propellor from the boat and hammered it back to working condition! Towards the end of our first day we sailed in the pitch dark with no lights to guide us other than that of Buddah I guess! Well we got here in one piece and found out that it was a normal day on the river for the Loas drivers.
My upload was just this moment interrupted by a town power cut... And we are back on the grid again now, and so are the two outrageously loud Laos karaoke's I can hear from here!