LP is a mixture of french colonial and traditional wooden houses. It's a UNESCO world heritage site and the centre almost completely given over to tourism. Very beautiful, but maybe a bit too perfect. All the streets are swept, the pavements (there are pavements!) neatly made out of herringbone brick. However, not far away life carries on as normal.
Did a couple of touristy things, including a trip to the waterfalls where we met the American nurse who had travelled up from Vientiane on the bus (14 hours!). She joined a group of twenty-something Japanese tourists in plunging 8' into the water from an overhanging tree, and received an admiring round of applause.
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