2 days ago, we boarded a Slow Boat from Houay Xai to Luang Prabang down the Mekong River, the 8th longest river in the world (the Amazon is the longest). The whole thing took 2 days but we stayed in Pakbeng overnight. Pakbeng is a small town in Laos that is basically all tourists from boat stopovers. There were 10 other passengers on the boat, not including our guide, Ke. Ke was a very good guide, he was funny and taught us a lot about the history of Laos. On the first day we had a little stop for exercise. We stopped at a village of the Khmu people, one of the main groups in Laos. It was cool seeing their lifestyle but also depressing to see how little they had. When we arrived in Pakbeng we walked to our guesthouse, Meksavanh Guesthouse, it had a very good view of the Mekong River. For dinner we went to a restaurant called Ounhoan Restaurant. In the morning we saw elephants across the Mekong, they were having a bath. Then we boarded the boat again, that day we had two little exercise spots. The first was the Hmong (pronounced: Mong) village, we bought handmade bracelets, mine was orange, purple, and yellow. The village is mostly kids, the village’s founder has 6 daughters!!! The second stop was Pak Ou Caves, it has over 4000 Buddha figures!! At the cave, we bought little birds to release, I named mine Anoi and Denise named hers Nahak. In Lao, Anoi means, “small one” and Nahak means, “cute”. When we got to Luang Prabang, we took a minivan to Singharat Guesthouse. No doubt, the slow boat was an awesome adventure.