Just a small town at a main intersection.
Spend a couple of nights here.
Lots of satellite dishes...
Two of us had a lot of trouble getting through it all.
Nong Khiaw
Caught the bus here early in the morning.
Bus started squirting fuel all over the road... We stopped and the fellow tried to tie the fuel line up with tape... didn´t work. I had a look and told him to take a line off the filter and put it to the fuel distributor to bypass the split hose... he seemed to under stand so he fixed it and we were on the way again.
Just around the corner we heard a noise like a gun shot.. this time it was the tyre on the bus which had blown out.. it was a pretty worn out tyre...
This was a really nice spot... bungalow on the river front and a few beers in the afternoon... nice.
Muong Ngoi Neua
This was a really nice little place up the river a bit.
We caught a boat in the morning.. every one piled onto the boat but it was sitting on top of arock and as they tried to push the boat out from shore it scraped a hole into the bottom and it started leaking...
Everyone got off the boat again and another boat came up to pick us up. Off we went up the river... very nice scenery here.
The boat started to splutter and cough and I could tell right away it was a fuel problem..they tried to start it over and over and they worked out it was the fuel pump.
The tank was sitting right down on the floor so I tried to tell them to lift the fuel tank higher so the fuel could fall down to the motor, but they couldn´t understand and said ´´no no ... won´t work´´. I tried to tell them a few times and they still didn´t try it so I thought it doesn´t really matter, I have all day they can sort it out for themselves. We waited for about 30mins for another boat and continued north to our destination. They floated the broken boat down stream to get it fixed... would have wasted a good day for them to sort that simple problem out.
They cram the people on the boats...Nice river ride up through the mountains...Nice village...A lady sitting by a fire...Sunset behind the mountains... Went for a bit of a hike up into the mountains here...
There were people workng in the rice fields...
And stumbled across what looked like an old bath tub which was positioned next to where some water was coming out of the mountain...
