Good morning from Luang Prabang in Lao we've been here for a couple of days now we're staying at this really cute guest house here
called Liberty Place it was such a good find today is the first day that we're going to be actually
exploring Luang Prabang but today we're just going to be exploring the sort of town center we have
actually rented a bike for the few days that we're here in luang prabang but it seems a little bit
more expensive than what we're used to especially in Thailand probably because we rented it from our
actual Hotel so we didn't have to go anywhere to get it and also not that many people seem to have
them to run around here as much the town is 100% walkable we don't actually need it to get around
the town the reason we got it was just to nip to the gym and back which is about a 30 minute walk
otherwise a lot of the tuk-tuk drivers though keep asking us to hop in their tuk-tuks and go a little
bit more towards the outskirts of town now this is actually something that we're planning on doing
in one of the next few days but we might have a bit of a fun mode of Transport it's really nice
here in Luang Prabang we're down by the river there are slow boats here so I'm not sure why they made
us go and park the slow boats about five miles down the road and they just pay to get a taxi
but that's fine it's really nice here the weather has been perfect not a single drop of rain it's
been so sunny and so warm it's really nice really nice there's a real sort of laid back feel here in
Luang Prabang even more so than Thailand really it's Thailand's very chilled out we're here Luang Prabang
it feels like everything's just moves 10 times slower you know I think first Port of Call for
today is probably not get hit by this Tuk Tuk and then grab a coffee and some breakfast I think we
do get breakfast in the hotel we have been having it over the last couple of days but today we
fancied something a little bit different a little bit more Laos so yeah so hopefully we'll get it
right we definitely need some hot coffee with milk which I think would be condensed milk
everything is in laotian so I can't read that but the language here is very similar to Thai
so I can kind of get along a little bit I'm just trying the same Thai words without the
krap at the end and they seem to work or they can also speak Thai that could be very much a
possibility yeah all right so we've got some patongo I don't know how you're
actually meant to pronounce that word and some Lao coffee these are always a favorite for us
and when we were in Thailand many people were telling us to dip it in hot coffee
this one looks quite thick actually so this one looks perfect to dip it in
but not the sweet type of patongo that we used to since Dylan said now
that it's salty I can't I kind of want to try it without dipping it in coffee
I've seen people dipping in their noodles or in their rice porridge
so maybe you're not meant to be eating them just on their own yeah
oh yeah it's not salty but it's not oh actually it is a bit salty let's sweeten it up a bit shall
we oh yeah that's good so we said sweet but we kind of said it when he'd already walked off
so I'm not sure if it's going to be very sweet coffee oh that's really nice that is sweet you
don't need much condensed milk to make it sweet like we had one coffee the other day here and
they gave us like 50 50 condensed milk and coffee wow we thought we'd had a very high tolerance to
sweets but that was too much so when we posted that other coffee on our Tick Tock which by the
way if you don't follow us on TikTok loads of people in the comments were saying that we should
have had it with ice so we should have asked for extra ice and then poured the 50 50 condensed milk
and coffee on top of there to kind of thin it out so next time we're gonna have to try that
after that coffee I think we're ready to explore this town or city I'm not actually sure probably
a town it's pretty small so walking around Luang prabang anyway I'm not sure about the rest of
Lao but there's not that many shops that being said we're just walking past a little corner shop
right now but it's not the same as in Thailand Malaysia where there's sort of 7-Elevens family
Marts everywhere here it's kind of more cafes and restaurants Corner shops Corner shops sometimes
they'll have some stuff that's usually imported it seems from Thailand so it's not as easy just
to pop in and get your food and your snacks so we've been eating a lot more healthy because
we haven't been able to eat the snacks because we haven't been able to bind any snacks so basically
I need something to carry my phone around if she doesn't have any pocket yeah I don't have
any Pockets but all of the bags that we've seen so far have looked super manly like this way you know
yeah not this time I need because I've got a smaller frame than a large man those bags that
look normal on a man look like they cover my whole front so and I only want to put my phone in there
I just need to find something to just put my phone around my neck I've seen some people carrying them
in like cases that hang around your neck I kind of want that but I haven't seen that anywhere so
I need to keep looking this is the first like proper shop that we recognize so and mini so
I love it is it miniso or mini so we always call it mini SO but here it looks like it's just
called miniso yeah I don't know we're probably being really stupid calling it Minis of epic music
well I don't have to carry that in my hand I might as well just carry my phone then like this
every time we've been in the Town Center of Luang Prabang recently we've seen this sort of pagoda
thing sticking out in the middle of town and we looked it up on Google so we're gonna go up there
right now and it's called Phousi Hill and it's meant to have insane views of all of Luang Prabang
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no exercise so does that mean if you don't do exercise you can't come out here or don't do
exercise up here I think it's telling people not to run up and down the steps can probably see why
yeah these steps look steep as anything if you have a runner you probably want to be running up
here to get your Hill Sprints and fitness up but probably not safe if you've got tourists like us
walking up and also probably not that respectful this is a religious ground or at least at the top
it is and some of the temples down here are not 100 sure I haven't really read up on this place
but it's meant to have I'm already out of breath I'm not even gonna have that many it's meant to
have the most beautiful view of luang prabang this is a very popular place to come for sun set
and sunrise we've decided to come sort of in the middle of the day to hopefully avoid most of the
masses we'll see so far so good I think we're nearly at the top so it's okay already I think
we can see another pagoda from here oh yeah yeah the view is nice here I think we can go
higher I have to say as well I don't know if you've been keeping up with our channel for a
while but I recently got glasses I've had glasses for many years but I recently got
new glasses so I can actually see when I'm out and about and this is like the first time that
I'm seeing hugely far away in a long time my other glasses anyway it's a long story
I've got glasses now I can see this view it's really beautiful the mountains are
sort of circling around this area and it's just Greenery as far as the eye can see
oh it's pretty beautiful she can actually see my face now as well so I don't know how long
this channel is gonna keep going on so just watch all the videos now while you can yeah
I could always see you I'm only joking we are in love uh close up
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oh there's a cave please come to see the cave is that what it says there's actually
way more down here than I thought hold on look at this you'll see anything now whoa
oh it's so nice and cool in here I like it but I don't like kids they're quiet
in here it's very quiet let's go thank you sign for lettings us know please come to see the cave
two tickets Please should we get a water oh yes it was 20 000 Kip to come in here which
is about a pound or just over a dollar the money here has been not a challenge but it's
different you pay in let's say 50 000 and then they give you so many notes because the notes
go all the way down to 500 so let's say you pay 50 000 and then you get change of let's say 37
000 you might get 13 notes of one thousand then you have to count them there's been some instances
where I'm not sure whether I've counted wrong or they've counted wrong or the Lost in Translation
or something like that I'm not sure what's happening I've been letting it slide but I'm
not sure when we last took money out of an ATM we ended up with such a big wad of bills we couldn't
even fold the wallet that's not to say that it was a lot of money it wasn't really it's
just there's a lot of bills one of the things to note if you are coming to Lao or if you're just
planning to be in this area for any reason try to bring cash they do take dollars and Thai baht in
some places we struggled getting some money out of ATMs some of the cards that we had it wasn't
accepting we ended up having to use one of our old British cards which meant that it took a
huge percentage okay maybe not huge I think it was about five percent either way it ends up adding up
we were down there earlier having breakfast yeah our hotel is somewhere over there oh yeah this is the Pagoda stupa that we
were looking at oh yeah the city is actually I looked it up by the way it is a city not a
town it used to be the old Royal capital of Lao so it is bigger than you think but also when you're
up here it looks so much bigger it looks really really cool looks really really green lots of palm
trees everywhere very similar to Northern Thailand I would say yeah really nice calm peaceful hot oh
my God it is absolutely scorching here now if you head down yeah I've worked up quite the appetite
let's do it [Music] this city is a world UNESCO heritage site since 1994. it's very similar to
hoi an one other thing is that there's no big sort of billboards with lights you know outside the
hotel and stuff it's all just sort of brown wood with uh the name of the hotel and it keeps that
traditional quaint nice Vibe yeah yeah definitely going around trying to find restaurants it's a
little bit difficult if you want to find Lao food it seems because most of them almost seem
catered towards Western food a lot of Thai food not that many restaurants that are solely Lao
food so we're kind of trying to find something that will give us a unique experience isn't this
LAo food menu It's the closest thing we can find let's do it but let's try it
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the real reveal sticky rice after looking online and trying to figure
out some classic Lao dishes it was a little bit difficult because many of them were meat
but what kept coming over and over and over again was sticky rice oh [Music]
everywhere we're saying that they do really good sticky rice
I like sticky rice we need rice with our dish so it was like a winner so I got a uh Luang Prabang beer I'd
never tried it before and it's made by bia lao but it's got a picture of the place
that we were at today at the top there it tastes a little bit different to bia lao but still
doesn't taste as strong I think it's because it's only 4.6 4.5 and bia lao is five and for
my main meal I've gone for a pork stew and then when I ordered it the the lady was like are you
sure you want to order that that's a really local lao dish I mean that's the reason we came into a
restaurant looking for love it looks pretty nice looks a little bit like in Thailand when you get
the rad na dish you know kind of gloopy soup that makes sense she said all the skin and the fat of
the pork is still on this let's try it that is so good so much flavor and that's insane if you know
the name of this dish let us know oh my God nice delicious and obviously we have the um
sticky rice to go with it I don't know you meant to just eat sticky rice kind of with everything
that works well together I also ordered from the Lao side of the menu I've got a Mekong
fish it was called and then she said that she would prepare it with a little bit of coconut
so I'm not sure if this is necessarily A Laotian way of preparing the food but
the fish sure is from here so it looks really good it looks a lot milder than Dylan's food
wow wow it's got some lemongrass in there that is actually really like
understated but kind of Punchy flavors at the same time it's really delicious
that is good sticky rice this whole dish is good this restaurant is called bamboo
tree and since it's such a hot day what better way to wash the food down than with some fresh
lime juice which I'm pretty sure sugar in here [Music] so fresh delicious and if you have any
recommendations of any Lao dishes that we have to try please let us know in the comments down
below because we're here for quite a while now and we want to try pretty much as many as we can