The former royal capital - mainly former because the royal family is presumed to be 'former' - was a welcome destination for a few days. Now protected by world heritage status, Luang Prabang maintains the vestiges of an Asian capital with colonial influences - basically the main strip of town hasn't changed in 150 years.
The view from the hill (including wat) that overlooks the city was probably my favourite, taking the town, palace, river and jungle beyond. We spent a day looking around the sites, a day at the waterfall, and a day shopping and having a massage, things that probably should have taken us two days only. The waterfall also has an animal recovery centre for a tiger and asian bears recovered from animal poachers.
After spending time in not-nice Huay Xai it was nice to meet the 'lovely' Lao people that friends and guidebooks have mentioned. The next stage is for us to find the cheap food promised as we are finding local food to be costing 2-3 what it would in Thailand.
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