Vientiene - how do I love thee?

Let me first just say, this city is fantastic!  This is my kind of capital city...only twice the population of Kingston, the centre of which is entirely accessible on foot or bicycle, temples and monks everywhere, and cafes serving coffee and baguettes, plus the usually friendly Lao people makes for a truly winning combination!  The only bad thing is that I have had to explore it solo for the past 2 days due to the nasty little bacterium that we are presuming is still residing in Dan's GI tract.  Fortunately our room has a TV and air conditioning so he has been able to spend his days in comfort, and with me having rented a bicycle to get around the city and sight-see, I can also zip out easily and get him snacks!  Although I did have a hard time finding watermelon today...these fruit guys move around the city on you and I think I circled the inner city 4 times before I finally tracked some down!  It is so delightful to ride around on bicycle and just stop at various cafes to cool off or to take pictures.  And they have real bread here and GRANOLA!  Oh how I have missed you granola!  Unfortunately, you do pay for it as the cafes are quite a bit more expensive than the local noodle shops (Dan keeps saying "you're eating us right out of our budget with your granola!") but I make up for it by having noodle soup with veggies for lunch and dinner :>)  I  have also got all of our laundry taken care of and exchanged my old book for a new one, so we are ready to head off to Vietnam tomorrow!

Hanna xoxo

PS - I have added some new pictures to the older posts, starting from Crazy Songkran if anyone is interested!

Downtown Vientiene - crazy wires!

 On top of the Arc de Triomphe - looking over the city

 Mangos for sale!