Mekong River Cruse
Mekong River, Laos – 2018. While in Luang Prabang we took a five hour cruse up the Mekong River to the Pak Ou Buddha Caves and back, stopping at Ban Xang Hai which is a small village with a tourist market. We had lunch on a floating restaurant where the Ou River (Nam Ou) meets the Mekong. We were in one of the local style river boats which are quite slow when going up river but that was fine because the scenery is great and ever changing. There is heavy jungle in some places, floating houses, river boats, farmers’ crops, small villages, high hills and limestone cliffs. The Pal Ou Caves are about 30 kilometers upriver from Luang Prabang.