4 Oct 2009

This Morning we moved to the new Hotel"D rose " a malaysian owned hotel and had buffet breakfast, It was good ,the Lao coffee is very similar to the malaysian "Kopi O" black coffee, after Breakfast we visited the very run down National museum.after the museum,we got ready to go see the "Bang fai payanak" the Serpent's fireballs, our mini bus came at 12 noon and the drive took us 1 and half hurs to get to the mekong river side,by the time we got there ..people were already setting up stalls to sell food. drinks and fireworks it has a carnival sort of atmosphere, but at last the night came and No fireball appeared from the river ,so this year all the people miss out on witnessing the Naga fireball phenomenen