Currency: Laotian kip, one US dollar is exchanged for 8000 kip, one RMB is exchanged for 1230 kip. Don't change money at the border, they only exchange one US dollar for 7000 kip. It is recommended to change money after arriving in Luang Prabang. Only Laotian currency is circulated in Laos, but the ticket back to China can be purchased with RMB, which is more cost-effective.

After a day of driving, I arrived at Luang Prabang Station groggy. When I got off the bus, I met a group of enthusiastic tug truck drivers who said they would take me to the city center. They basically asked for 30,000 yuan per person, but I could bargain. Yunluo finally agreed to 10,000 yuan. On the way, Yunluo told the driver that she was going to buy a ticket.

In fact, the ticket office was just across the street from the station where Yunluo had just gotten off. He took Yunluo on a ten-minute detour and even wanted Yunluo to pay more. Of course, this was just a small episode. Yunluo and the other two took a 10,000 riel tractor-trailer to the city center. The Korean girl who was traveling with them recommended a hesthostel to them.

After comparison, it is indeed the most cost-effective room nearby. A standard room costs 60,000 riels, and Yunluo and three people live in it for 20,000 per person. It has a fan, wifi, hot water, and a good environment. It was only eight o'clock when Yunluo packed up. Yunluo visited the morning market and the vegetable market here. It was really like the vegetable market that Yunluo had seen when he was a child. Breakfast, fresh meat, vegetables, all kinds of them, but not dirty or messy.

There is a barbecue restaurant next to the morning market. The meal costs 10,000 yuan + 2.5,000 yuan of rice. Yunluo was very satisfied with the meal. The barbecue here is really unique. Someone has recommended it before, but Yunluo still wants to recommend it. The excellent barbecue, paired with their glutinous rice, will make you want to have a few more bites no matter how full you are.

The two days in Luang Prabang were mainly spent at two waterfalls. On the first day, we took a tugboat to Kuang Si Falls, which cost 80,000 yuan for three people. The ticket was 20,000 yuan. Kuang Si Falls is the largest waterfall around Luang Prabang. It is really spectacular. There is also a natural swimming pool in the waterfall park where you can dive and there are Malay bears.

After Yunluo and his friends finished breakfast, they started thinking about where to go today. A tractor-trailer driver volunteered to take Yunluo to Guangsi Waterfall. After weighing the pros and cons, the price of 80,000 yuan for three people was the cheapest car Yunluo could find. However, in order to ensure that he could make money, he could only set off at 11:30.

Yunluo agreed readily. After that, Yunluo spent an hour walking around the city, the river, the post office, and the morning market. He set off on time at 11:30. He arrived at the Guangsi Waterfall at 12:30. He said he would pick Yunluo up at 3:30. Yunluo was still wondering why it took so long to see the waterfall.

But it turns out that if you want to jump into the waterfall and climb the mountain, three hours is actually very tight. There are many small wooden tables and chairs beside the Guangsi Waterfall, where people can have a picnic. It is also a good choice to stay here for an afternoon, chatting and reading. Diving, the water is only 1.5m deep.

It was only 5 o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in the city. Phu Sik Mountain is right next to Yunluo Inn. Yunluo watched the sunset on Phu Sik Mountain and watched this world cultural heritage city gradually fall asleep. The mountaineering fee is 20 yuan. Go up the mountain from the east and go down the mountain from the west. After going down the mountain, you can see the night market. The night market is not comparable to Chiang Mai. But it is still very pleasant to visit the night market every day.

Sometimes, a deep male voice whispers to you: "The girls here are very beautiful", and Yunluo smiles at him. The girl next to him asked Yunluo what he said to Yunluo, and Yunluo said he could only lie to her and say that he praised your beauty. Haha. Luang Prabang is not a city that makes people amazed, it is not like Nha Trang. It makes people's eyes light up when they see it.

It conveys a kind of temperament to people. People's lives should be like this, why do they spend such a high price to build a steel cage? Why do they work hard all their lives to gain a fortune, but cannot get a smile from themselves? This small town has a kind of power that makes people quiet and understand what life is.

All the friends who have been to Luang Prabang recommended this city to Yunluo, saying that Yunluo must go and experience it with all her heart. Now, Yunluo has gone quietly, leaving nothing behind except photos and memories. This city is like a clear soup after a big meal. The craftsmanship is not complicated, and the ingredients are not precise, but it is very memorable.

Standing on Phu Si Mountain, looking east. The majestic rain clouds, the hills under the rain clouds, and the dense red roofs dotted in the forest at the foot of the mountain. Standing on Phu Si Mountain, looking west. The sunset on the Mekong River. Tourists watching the sunset together on the top of the mountain, three good friends, just like this for a lifetime. <) is an exquisite and quaint mountain town, located in a valley surrounded by mountains on the Mekong River, about 500 kilometers away from the capital Vientiane. It is the oldest town in Laos, with a history of more than a thousand years.

According to a survey by a United Nations expert group, there are 679 ancient buildings worth preserving in Luang Prabang. In December 1995, Luang Prabang was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

With simple folk customs, well-preserved natural ecology, and no overly commercialized interpersonal relationships, it is recognized as the city with the best preserved traditional and colonial styles in Southeast Asia, and has become a "paradise" pursued by Western tourists.

Going down the mountain to the east, you will find the night market. Countless red plastic sheds have occupied the entire street. The next day, Yunluo rented a car and went to Tadsae Waterfall. The waterfall is very small and the road is not difficult to walk. For young men, a 2-hour bike ride is enough. Tadsae Waterfall is in the south of the city, 15 kilometers along the main road. After 15 kilometers, you will see a sign for Tadsae Waterfall.

After that, there was no asphalt road. You need to take a boat to see Tadsae Waterfall. The parking fee is 3,000 yuan, the boat ride is 10,000 yuan, the ticket is 25,000 yuan, and the elephant riding and other projects are charged separately. Yun Luo was exhausted, so he had barbecue in the restaurant in the scenic area. The barbecue in this restaurant on the second floor is better than the one in the morning market, and it is not expensive.

Yunluo and his friends each ate a large plate of food, and also had fried rice and Coke, and in the end each person only spent 30 RMB. In the afternoon, the Korean girl said she wanted to go back for a massage, so Yunluo and his friends went home together. Ironically, the girl took a car when she went back, but Yunluo and his friends rode bicycles back and arrived earlier than them.

When Yunluo was free at night, she went to the night market to shop and met many people. We sat down and chatted together. It was like this, meeting each other again and again. It made the journey more interesting and even sparked a love. At 11 o'clock, the people who went out to have fun had returned, and everyone started to chat about this and that again.

Various languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, sign language, chatted until late, travel, life, ideals, love, people of different nationalities gathered together. Talking about their own lives, a Korean girl served as Yunluo's translator, speaking Chinese, Korean and English, but she couldn't hold it after 15 minutes, and spoke to Yunluo in Korean for a long time and blamed Yunluo for not understanding.

This was Yunluo's last beautiful night. One day later, Yunluo began an endless life in the car. Today he was going to Luang Prabang. Originally, he was going to give up this route because he calculated that if he went home by land, he would have to travel continuously and would not be able to get home until the 25th.

After I bought the ticket yesterday, I found out that there is a better route: stay at Chiang Khong Port for one night, and go directly to Houei Xai Port to find a car the next day. Because after passing Houei Xai Port, the car actually goes southeast, and if Luang Prabang is only used as a transit station, it is actually not worth it, and the price will be much more expensive than going directly from Houei Xai.

But there was nothing I could do, the tickets were already bought. I chatted with a few of them in the morning. When I was about to withdraw money, I found that my card was lost. I was really anxious for a few minutes. When I was looking for the card, I ran into the director brother. I was really anxious at the time. I hurriedly wanted him to go away.

I wanted to go to the bank to settle it. But then I gave up and instinctively went back to ask Brother Zhang for help and borrowed 700 yuan. Yunluo was really surprised at Yunluo's calmness. I hope the money is not lost, otherwise the loss will be huge. 800 yuan is gone.

I got on the bus at 10am and passed by Baimiao. Later I started talking to a Taiwanese girl on the bus and then met a Korean girl. The Taiwanese girl was from Tsinghua University and Smida was from Sihai University and could speak Chinese. We lived together for a few days and it was quite happy. Yunluo could still stand the Taiwanese girl's Taiwan accent.

I can gradually understand the Korean girl's Chinese. Before arriving in Laos, there is a place to take photos, which seems to be very expensive. When crossing the border, you first take a boat across the river, and then you will go to the visa application place. I met a very sissy visa officer. The visa fee is 20 US dollars, and he asked for a 1 dollar tip.

The exchange rate at the border was very low, 1 USD for 7,000, and 1 USD for 8,000 in Luang Prabang. Yunluo spent the whole afternoon and night in the car, chatting with an Austrian uncle sitting next to him. The bald uncle was a computer engineer, and he spoke very slowly, and his way of speaking seemed strange. The car swayed and swayed, and it was the next day.

The next day, I arrived at the station early in the morning. I was so anxious. I didn't know where to go. There was no map and no reasonable price. An indescribable discomfort lingered in my heart. The prices here are very high. A tow truck will take you to the city center, but it will cost a lot. Yunluo finally bargained down to ten thousand.

But the price for a two-kilometer journey was still high. Yunluo told the driver that she was going there the next day and wanted to ask where the bus station was to buy tickets. It was actually just opposite, but the driver took Yunluo around in a big circle and asked Yunluo how much money she wanted. Of course, Yunluo didn't pay in the end.

Arriving at the city center, Yunluo finally stayed at a Korean-owned hotel. The female boss was very nice, but she was a local. Because of the recent promotion, the prices before November were very cheap. It was also the most cost-effective hotel in the area, with two beds, separate bathroom, fan, wifi, 60 for two people and 50 for one person.

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Yunluo went to Spicylao, which was recommended by someone. The conditions were not good. It cost NT$3000 per night per person. If you live alone, you can save money, but if you live with two or three people, it is really not worth it. After washing up, it was about eight o'clock. Yunluo went to the morning market. Things here are really expensive. When I was in Cambodia, I only drank coffee for half a dollar, but here it is converted to one and a half dollars in US dollars, which is super expensive.

I feel that the prices are higher than those in China, a Nutri-Express bar costs 10 yuan, and a can of Coke costs more than 4 yuan. I originally planned to buy three bamboo rice tubes for 10,000 yuan to last for three days, but later I found the barbecue here so tempting that I couldn't resist and changed 100 yuan.

After all the calculations, it was still more cost-effective to exchange US dollars for old currency. But the fact proved that the one hundred dollars was still quite tight to spend. Yunluo ate barbecue twice, took a 30-dollar tugboat, and paid a 20-dollar waterfall, which cost more than 70 dollars. As a result, he didn't even have money for food the next day.

Due to limited bargaining power, the three tractor-trailer drivers charged a total of 80,000 yuan for the round-trip fare to the waterfall. The tractor-trailer left at 11:30, and Yunluo strolled along the river and found a post office to mail a postcard.

On the way back, I bought an ice cream from a Chinese shop. When they heard Yunluo speak Chinese, they immediately reduced the price to 10,000 yuan for two scoops. Yunluo ordered coconut and strawberry flavors. The strawberry flavor was sour. It was my first time eating it and I was pleasantly surprised. It tasted great. Later, I met a Norwegian guy on the trailer and talked about their country for a long time. It was indeed a country of tall, handsome and rich people.

I always feel that the cost of living in the United States is very low. When we arrived at the waterfall at 12:20, he said we would meet at 3 o'clock. Yunluo thought that we had too much time, but it turned out that more than two hours was actually quite tight, because in addition to seeing the waterfall, we also climbed mountains, crossed rivers, swam, dived, and watched bears. Yunluo felt that the diving was super worth it because he didn't bring a swimsuit.

When the Norwegian guy asked me about it, I got itchy and went down with my pants on. It was great, really great, and worth it. After returning at around 3 o'clock, I left my contact information with the Norwegian guy and chatted for a while, but he was already too sleepy. Forget it, I gave up. There was also a Korean mother and son on the trailer. The son went to an international school and spoke standard Mandarin.

Because he was admitted to a Korean university, Yunluo did not discuss the mental journey of the candidates. They lived in the same gh as Yunluo, but they lived in an air-conditioned room. So they were across the street. After coming back in the afternoon and washing up. Yunluo decided to go to Pushik Mountain, going up from the east and down from the west. There were a lot of wines on the way up the mountain from the east, which felt very good.

The cost of going up the mountain is 20,000 per person. There are several temples, and the architectural style is influenced by Thailand, but there are still some differences in the style of the Buddha statues. Luang Prabang is a world cultural heritage. There are many historical sites, but because they are relatively scattered, you need to visit them slowly.

After Yunluo reached the top of the mountain, he saw the entire town, which was completely surrounded by green. Coupled with the dusk light from Hunan and the floating fog and smoke from cooking at the foot of the mountain, Yunluo even felt that this town itself deserved to be listed as a World Heritage Site. (To be continued...)