Nong Khiaw & Mung Noi

After hanging out in Luang Prabang for a few days Hanna, Cajsa and I headed up the Nam Ou on a slow boat to Nong Khiaw.  We wanted to get on a local boat and spent a while checking out when boats went from the jetty by speaking to the locals, it looked really promising when we turned up the next morning until the boat loaded up and was full of tourists!  I think that most of the locals now take the bus up to Nong Khiaw as its faster and cheaper, however we did pick up a local guy with some bags of rice half way up so it did sort of turn into a local boat.  The boat ride was really beautiful going through lots of valleys and passed little villages with lots of fisherman around, luckily we had cushions on the wooden seats otherwise 6 hours would have been a bit much!

We landed at Nong Khiaw in the afternoon and found some little bamboo bungalows looking over the river.  It was a bit hot to go exploring so we just sat around and looked at the view across the river of the hills.  We spent a couple of days chilling by the river before going up river on a boat to Mung Noi, 1 hour north