Stop 17: With so much fun in the l-p-b, Its kinda hard bein’ Snoop d-o-double-g -- Luang Phra Bang, Laos

The night we arrived in Luang Phra Bang it was dark, calm and quiet. We checked into Chittana, which we now lovingly refer to as “Shitana” (thanks ben!!). When we woke the next morning we were so pleasantly surprised to find that the streets lined with bouginvailia, old French colonial homes, and cars straight out of the 1940s. We weren’t in Kansas anymore. Paper lanterns hung between palm trees as the night market brought this quaint city alive. Most of the light was candle and the romance of it all was undeniable. We had no doubt that this was one of our best stops so far.

Needing a Vietnamese visa we spent 4 days lounging in the cafés of LPB, sipping wine and coffee, and finishing Cam’s grad school apps. By the end of our final day, our visas had been approved and we reluctantly left this slice of old time paradise for our next stop on the Laotian circuit.