It was leaning very heavily to one side for a few hours. When the water got very choppy in one part of the trip the men at the front looked concerned and moved lots of bags and rucksacks to the other side and it balanced out. But if that was not enough we stopped along the way and got another load of passengers.
We also pulled alongside the riverbank to drop people off to go to their villages in the middle of nowhere. It all added to the fascination of the journey.
The children and locals also took the opportunity to try and sell things from the rocks to passengers on the boat.
Again it was pretty dangerous, the way they leant into the boat from the rocks. But they seemed oblivious of the dangers and they were so smiley.
There was a real mixture of tourists on the boat which just added to the atmosphere. Young and old from all over the world just mixed and chatted and it was lovely to see how everyone was so good natured.
This leg of the trip took eight hours, and again the views from the boat were breathtakingly beautiful. I am so glad that I decided to do this trip! I have never seen such an impressive sunset as the one I witnessed over the Mekong as we made our way along the river to Luang Prabang.
Although you are sitting around on the boat for eight hours ,it is very wearing being in such cramped conditions for so long and I was glad when we eventually arrived at Luang Prabang eight ours later, just after the sunset..
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It all sounds fab!! "Tip of the Day!" Only take landscape photos! No more turning the camera to take portrait photos! OK? Missin you xXx
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