Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Laos and Singapore

For the first time since Maya's birth, ...

Grabbing a soup in Bangkok

View from the entrance of our hotel

view from our room

we found the water!

Mango smoothie break

Mango smoothie break

Other pic of our smoothie place

Baby chick for Noah

One of many wats on our country walk

Where the Nam Khan river and the Mekong meet

Woman making cool paper with flowers in it

Paper drying

Paper dried

Long beans


The flowers are out this morning - so beautiful

Excursion to the beautiful Kuang Si waterfall...

In the water

Hike up to the top of the waterfall

At the top - crossing over to the pools (still nobody in sight :) )

The pool - it was pretty deep in most places and you 
could swim all the way back to some more waterfalls :)

After a refreshing swim - ready to hike back down

Beautiful flowers on the way down 


Falls further down

Bears from the rescue bear shelter by the falls

Butterfly from the butterfly museum also by the falls

Butterflies eating


Caterpillar/butterfly egg

Super shiny cocoon

Final butterfly sighting before heading back...

Lunch at cute French Cafe

Waiting for food to arrive

Cute colonial house


[viber note from Seth: Maya won't release her bath towel. So she's sitting here on our bed cuddling a damp towel and looking at pics] she does love her towel!

After lunch we visited some wats (temples)

All of them have these bright stars around

Cute dragon (I like his tongue)

Decorations of a wat

Another cute building

That night we climbed up mount phousi and found all the Buddhas in the dark

Suza's favorite

Reclining Buddha

Breakfast view

Suza's friend chicken dragon

Walking through the market - yum noodles

A local snack - seaweed with sesame seeds

Little birds

Seaweed mountain

Maggots and???

Shrooms

Dried fish

Fish and bug

Car travelling across the Mekong

Suza crossing the Mekong

Kids playing in the Mekong

Chillies drying in the village across from Luang Prabang

lunch break (with internet :) )























During that time in Singapore....

Stuck in the rain at the birdpark

Waiting it out at the waterfall cafe