Alena & Anton's food and travel adventures
Goodbye Luang Prabang, off to southern Laos. Tuk tuk, plane, car, motorcycle, boat, truck, 6 different means of transportation and 6 hours later we arrived to Champasak. There's no public transport from Pakse airport to Champasak and although it's only a 30km journey a taxi is quite expensive. Time to get creative. We lucked out, … Continue reading Off to southern Laos
"V samem stredu mesta Luang Prabang lezi myty opredena hora Phou Si," herec licil behem tradicniho predstaveni Garavek, pri kterem se vypravi starodavne pribehy doprovazene lidovou hudbou. Phou Si se cte bez 'h' a bez 'o' a zni to stejne jako anglicke oznaceni pro zensky pohlavni organ, takze pokazde, kdyz to pan vypravec vyslovil, se … Continue reading Luang Prabang a Phou Si
"At the centre of Luang Prabang there lies the mystical mountain of Phou Si," the actor was explaining during a traditional Garavek storytelling performance accompanied by folk music. Phou Si is pronounced without the 'h' and the 'o' so you can imagine it generated quite a few giggles among the audience when he kept repeating … Continue reading The city of Phou Si
Podobne jako Muang Ngoi, Nong Khiaw je mala vesnice podel reky obklopena horami, ale oproti nasi predchozi destinaci se k ni da dostat krome lodi aji po silnici. Kdyz uz mame ty hory takhle hezky za humny, byla by skoda se na ne nepodivat trochu blize. Prihlasili jsme se tedy na (pro zmenu nastesti jenom) … Continue reading 100 vodopadu v Nong Khiaw
Similar to Muang Ngoi, Nong Khiaw is a small town on the Nam Ou river surrounded by mountains, but this one is also accessible by road (bonus!). Since the mountains are so close it would be a shame not to check them out so we signed up to yet another trek (this time only for … Continue reading 100 Waterfalls in Nong Khiaw
Autobus do Muang Khua trval jenom sedm hodin misto avizovanych osmi, slava! To se jen tak nestava, vetsinou je to naopak. I kdyz cesta byla o neco lepsi, nez na co jsme se psychicky pripravovali, meli jsme tech deravych klikatic uz plne zuby, takze jsme se rozhodli dalsi staci do Muang Ngoi absolvovat po vode. … Continue reading Vyhlidky a houpaci site
The bus to Muang Khua only took 7 hours instead of the advertised 8, lucky! In these parts of the world it's usually the other way round. Although the journey was better than we expected, we've had enough of windy roads full of potholes so to get to our next destination, Muang Ngoi, we decided … Continue reading Viewpoints and hammocks
"Slechteny banan chutna dobre, ale jeho kvet se neda jist, u divokeho bananu je to naopak, kvet se pouziva na vareni, ale ovoce ma moc pecek a potom to na zachode nedopada dobre", vysvetlovat Warth, zatimco my jsme prezvykovali jakesi listi. A uz jsme v tom zase. Sotva jsme se vzpamatovali z gibonu, upsali jsme … Continue reading Ratan k veceri
"You can eat plantation banana but not the flower, wild banana you eat the flower but not the fruit - too many seeds in the fruit and then happy room not so happy", Warth was explaining as we chewed on some leaf. We did it again. After 2 days of recovering post-Gibbons, we signed up … Continue reading Rattan for dinner
Taky jste jako mali snili o domku ve strome jak v americkem filmu? V narodnim parku Nam Ha na severu Laosu se detske sny stavaji skutecnosti. Ale vezmeme to pekne od zacatku. Prvni den rano jsme v kancelari spolecnosti Gibbon Experience podepsali papir, ze kdyz se prizabijeme, nebudeme se s firmou soudit, vyfasovali jsme lahev … Continue reading V korunach stromu
Lasagne for breakfast 