Spectacular Waterfall

We got up and moved to yet another guest house, only $4 US/night. We then walked to the guest house where Oren and Ren were staying, and had the most amazing French toast we've ever had. We're gonna go there again tomorrow morning too!

Oren and Ren woke up and came downstairs to the restaurant while we were eating. Another girl staying at their guest house joined us for the tuk-tuk ride to the waterfall. The tuk-tuk was about an hour ride, mostly gravel road. 15000 kip to get into the waterfall. WOW! This is one amazing waterfall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Probably the most impressive waterfall I've ever seen. Water is crystal clear, and the waterfall is huge, and there are pools of water all the way up. We hiked to the top of the waterfall, and at the top, you can actually stand at the very edge of the waterfall (feet in the water), and look down over the edge of the falls. It's totally spectacular! It's actually very dangerous! There's no way Parks Canada would ever let you get that close to a waterfall in CAnada. It was amazing.

AT this one pool, they have a rope you can swing from a cliff and drop into a pool. It was a lot of fun. I did it three times, Courtney only did it once, but she chickened out, and only did it from the lower cliff (scaredy cat!)

We hiked back up to the top of the waterfall, and Ren broke out is tea pot and little stove and we made some tea (he loves tea!). We sat around for an hour or so, then hiked back down, found Lynn (the other girl that came with us), then took the tuk-tuk back to Louang Phabang. Got back about 5:15. We went back to the Nisha (Nishka?) restaurant, an Indian restaurant, and had some Indian food. Very, very delicious! Yum!!!!

Then we walked around the market for a while. Most people that were out last night aren't out tonight, they must have had a rough night and need their sleep tonight. Losers!!

The town had no electricity today, except our new guest house. They must have a generator. When we left to go to the waterfall, there was no electricity, and when we got back from the waterfall, they still had no electricity, so in the evening, everything is being lit up by candles. Court and I had a romantic candle-lit dinner at Niska's. Haha. What's really neat is the night market all lit up by candles.

About 9:00PM or so, the power finally came back on, so Court and I decided to hit the internet to check out buddies comments about the US starting the bombing campaign. We checked CNN.com and canada.com, and of course, found out it's not true. It's weird, when you're cut off from the real world, you have no idea what's happening, other than from just things you hear on the streets and from other people.