Christmas day 🎅🎄🎁

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🎄🎁🎄🎁

We did not do much we just walked around Luang Prabang. We also played Uno in a cafe called Saffron Cafe which served yummy food. I had a hot chocolate. I got a present. It was a book with a monk sitting on the water with the reflection. 

This is what it looks like inside.

I liked my present. 

The sad day. 😪

Today we are going to leave LP and go to Hanoi. We leave at 17:10. So in the morning we went to a war museum. It was horrible because I hate wars. This was was secret. Millions of bombs were dropped onto Laos. These bombs still kill today.

The child in the pic was injured by a cluster bomb. He was lucky it did not kill him. His friend was not so lucky as he picked it up thinking it was a ball.

Here are the cluster bombs. 

It's really sad and horrible. 

The 1st day in Hanoi 😎

We went in a cyclo (it is tuk tuk with a bike.) This is a cyclo. We toured the old quarter and the lake with them. It was fun. The shops are tiny and they have millions of the same stock but in all different colors. Streets sell the same thing. Christmas lights street. The sticky tape street. It's pretty weird because here in fusion they barely have any stock.

The main Vietnamese dish is phò. I don't like it but my parents do. This is what it looks like. 

The traffic is crazy. Crossing the street you don't look or stop or you die. But you get to the other side ok. It's crazy. It was fun.

Halong Bay 🌺

We are going to Halong Bay.We went in a minibus for 3hours.My mom told me it was amazing. After a long time we finally arrived it was beautiful. This is what the boat looked like.It's called the Stellar. 

We got on and in our rooms. There are 3 floors on the boat the 1st floor had the deluxe cabins,the entrance and the reception.The 2nd floor (our floor) had the honeymoon suite and the premium cabins (our cabin). The 3rd floor was the restaurant and bar and on top there is the sundeck. This is the room that we were in but I had to crop the picture because Zoe had no underwear. 

Here are some of the views. 

We went to see a huge cave afterwards we went swimming. The water was cold. After dinner, we went squid fishing. To fish, we used a bamboo fishing rod and jogged the string up and down under the lights. We didn't catch anything but we saw our guide catch some.

The next day we went on a day boat. Luca, Zoe and Nim went kayaking. 

I chill axed with my mum. Here is a picture of her.

The boat also had a cute cat. Here's the picture. She is 2 months old and likes to play or attack people.

The Hill Tribes

The hill tribes make silk out of the silk worms eggs.here is a picture. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL🎅🎄🎁

The waterfall💦

We went to a park where there were butterflies. Here are the top 10.

 

They grow them in the farm. Here are the pupae. They have different types depending on the season.

Here is a caterpillar in camouflage.  Can you see it ?

This is my favourite.

 

We were lucky they also had a fish spa. The little fish come clean your feet when you put them in the water.

This is where we sat. It tickles.

Then we went to a bear rescue centre. They save the moon bears from bile farms. The centre has big and small bears. They say there are still 1000 left to be saved. The bile is used for Chinese medicine. The way to stop it is to educate this is why I put it on my blog. 

 

This is how small the cages are.

They put them in here to abstract their bile from their tummy once a week and the tube is full of germs. IT IS VERY SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Kuang Si waterfalls are amazing. The color of the water is blue turquoise. We went swimming but it was freezing cold. 

I'm surprised Luca went in.

And Zoe and Nim both went in and made a friend called Anna. 

It was a long day but a great day.

The DP Day aka Dog🐶 And Pool 💦

Today we saw a CUTE puppy.It was black and white. Here is a picture. 

He is cute because he is so small and he likes licking people and play whit us !!!!!!!!!

Nim goes to see him every day.

For breakfast we had some amazing pancakes (banana)

And here is Zoe eating her vegetables.

And there is  my dad ready to eat his food.

We went to a swimming pool and saw a Buddha 

Here is the swimming pool. 

Monks and travel on the Mekong river 🚤

We got up early to watch the monks come for the alms. They walk passed the guesthouse early like 6am. They chant prayers after receiving some rice.🍚 The ladies are sitting there and give rice to each monk. People do this every day. It was pretty cool to watch. The dogs follow as they also want food.🐕🐈

There were many monks. Some are really young. Mister Phone who owns the guesthouse said they come from poor families. 😔

Then we went to the Mekong river.This is the boat that we went on to go to the Pak Ou caves.👽

This is how it looks like in the boat. This is also my crazy family.🙀

Life on the Mekong river.👍🐟🐓

Here are wild buffaloes by the river. 🐃

Now we have arrived at the caves.

Here is the inside. There are thousands of Buddhas.🙏

And here is family love.(so cute 😘)

This is the Laos flag.