Day trippin' outside of Luang Prabang

After checking out the town for a day or two, we took a few day trips out of Luang Prabang with our crew that we met on the slow boat. One day we hired a boat and checked out some caves just off of the Mekong. They were actually kind of lame, but the journey on the river was cool. On the way back we convinced our boat driver to stop at a beach along the riverside - definitely the best idea of the day.

The next day we went to the Kuang Si Waterfall, basically the most beautiful waterfall I've have ever seen! Because of all of the dissolved calcium carbonate (same stuff that makes limestone), the color of the water was milky teal, and the rocks and trees in the water had a hard calcium/limestone shell on them. The pictures below don't do it justice!

Our boat and driver

A local fishing with no pants...obviously the only real way to fish on the Mekong

Kuang Si Waterfall

After about an hour of hiking and wandering lost in the forest trying to find the right trail, we finally found the top of the main waterfall!

Looking down from the top of the main waterfall