River boats.
The river we crossed between Thailand and Laos.
Yum.
Noodle soup and Laap.
Lunch while trekking. Eat with your hands using the sticky rice as a scoop, served on banana leaves.
Interesting flowers.
Area of slash and burn.
Shade/nap hut near the rice fields.
Feast at a wedding. Mike saw this on his one day trek while Em was sick in bed.
Rice.
Mike playing a form of Bocci ball.
A pig with a couple of chickens on it.
Little girl feeding the pigs. She used the stick to keep the dogs out and let all the pigs eat.
Em getting crowded out of the fire warmth by some pigs.
Woman pounding the rice to loosen the husks or outer covering.
Woman separating the rice from the husks. Notice the baby on her back and the child peeking through at the camera. And animals everywhere.
Some little girls fighting over this puppy.
Lao kids in one of the villages we stopped in.
House in the background, Lao children standing in dry rice fields. The rice had already been harvested.
View from the trekking trail.
The end of our two day trek. We are wet and our pants and shoes are covered in orange mud.
Monks near a bridge in Luang Prabang
