Day 39-42 (Laos)

During the previous night we had somehow agreed to get involved with locals, rebuilding a house that had been swept away by the river a few weeks prior. The experience was great, the house was a simple design that we managed to almost complete the first day. Many locals had taken part in the building process and the "chief" of the village had also come to assist.

The food during these two days was the highlight, everything was local all within walking distance from the house (snake soup, waterbuffallo blood soup, bamboo salad, papaya salad, fried fish, everything was harvested or cought/slaughtered that day), we ate on bannana leaves and strangely enough for those two days, really felt like a local, the whole thing was great and by the end of the second day we had completed the house. The family moved in and we moved on.

My Brommie and Irish freinds had gone on and I had run out of money and not being able to draw from my card I was rightly screwed, luckly I could cover transport back to China and accomodation for one night but no cash for food. I was fortunate enough to get a 10000kip donation form another traveller which covered a pack of instant noodles and some fruit. So with nothing left to do I spent my last day roaming the village.

The next morning was used to get a ticket to China and marked the end of my Laoation adventure.