Ok, ready for some blood and gore now?
After having celebrated our invasion of Lao (in defiance of peoples and natures resistance) with truckloads of Beer Lao and Lao-lao (Rice-Whiskey) we traveled on to Luang Nam Tha. It is a nice city surrounded by the Nam Ha National Park with remote villages of different tribes and beautiful untouched nature. So I did what every reasonable tourist would do: I rented a loud and dirty motorbike and blasted off through the wonderful scenery. As a motorcycle-novice I for the first time felt the boundless freedom bikers always rant about, as the head wind wet my eyes and kids were running out of their shacks to wave at me.
And then I crashed...
Ok, to be honest, it was just a crappy moped, but 125cc were enough to batter the vehicle and me for 30 bucks worth of repair costs and two weeks worth of (light;) pain, respectively. The good side is that I haven't got to excise the suspect birthmark on my shoulder anymore...
We were staying at a marvelous guest house these days in Luang Nam Tha. That they had still free rooms may be explained simply by their telephone number...
By the way, we have once again pushed our culinary limits:
Now that Peter and I have started eating cockroaches, it is only a matter of time until they have to be added to the list of endangered species...
Yours, Evel Knievel jun.
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