Mekong River

A memorable day in Luang Prabang was the day we took a long boat ride up the Mekong River. Our destination was a small village, that appeared to be a one family village, where we had lunch. To go much past this village, we were told, would be to enter dangerous waters where bandit attacks were the norm. If we were detirmined to go on up the river - which I assure you we weren't - we could have taken an 8 hour speed boat ride on something that looked like a long motorized canoe that traveled, indeed, at very high speed. We saw a couple of these boats that were, in fact, filled with all of the passengers the boat would hold - about 4 - hunkered down and holding on for dear life which they would continue to do for many hours.