Laos🇱🇦
October 2017
C GUNN!!!!!
convincing Hervé to rent motorbikes and proceeding to crash on the side of a mountain
sofitel’s insistence that I was a mistress not a niece
monks
I came to Laos directly after the completion of a soccer tournament in Bangkok. It was planned last minute, and only my uncle, Hervé, and I went because Lisa was busy with work. Coincidentally, the Gunns also decided to vacation there for a few days. I think I will always look back on this trip with the most laughs out of all my miniature adventures in the region. Not only did our hotel think that I was my uncle’s mistress, but I got food poisoning from a fruit shake, and crashed my motorbike after convincing my Hervé to rent it for me. The neighborhood streets in Luang Prabang were so quiet and picturesque that it felt like strolling across the set of a movie. The Mekong is a beautiful river, and in 2017, when I was able to get myself up before sunrise, you could wake up to watch all of the monks pass by in an alms procession. The architecture, food, scenery, and Laotian people made this trip an 11/10.
