~laos/phonsavan/falls

Sara, Nic, Paul, Samantha and I spend the day doing a tour in Phonsavan. The tour consists of visiting a typical Lao village, seeing a waterfall, and seeing the Plain of Jars (will explain later).

The village and the Jars were pretty boring. No need to explain. The water falls were something special! The five of us were getting along great, laugh a minute! :) We dressed to go see a waterfall. LIttle did we know, that to get to the waterfall and back involved an intense 5 hour trek through the mountainous jungle in terrential rain! Seriously! The pics should be incredible...

The best experience yet. It rained so hard, and our guide didnt seem to know the way often, so we would occaisionally build new paths though the dense dense jungle with our hands, climbing up steep hills, battling the rain, and avoiding large bugs where possible. It was just fab, despite none of us being suitably dressed. When we reached the base of the fall, our guide informs us that the way back to the van was up the waterfall. So we literally climbed up this fast rushing waterfall for hours, it was massive, so many levels. There were times when rock climbing was necessary, careful balancing acts of slippery trees, and sturdy legs in fast flowing water... just brilliant, everyone got through safely... and between us only suffered 2 leach bites. (both on my legs!)