The land of the Elephants - Day 45

As Sophia wrote, we arrived in our 3rd country yesterday!
Not planned, but things on this trip usually just sort of roll on, and everything 'fixar sig' (works out) and suddenly we where in Laos. Probably a good thing, since we had about 5 days on our China Visa left.
But now that we're here, I want to go back. China was loads cheaper, less tourists and well... China. Mostly I miss the food I suppose (dumplings and tofu!) but also the ease, you could be yourself (feet on chairs were okay for example) and the fact that we were a lot of the time the only Westerners.
But a great plus in Laos is the nature, and that the bigger towns are still just that, towns, not huge cities. Figuring out the money is still a problem, and we have no idea what we should try to bargain on. Well, we will learn eventually, I suppose. Let's just hope we have any money left then. (Yes, we are upset that our cute cottage -hotel room costs 40 000 KIP a night, we are used to paying 25 yuan for better.... around 25 000 KIP)
Since we're not doing to well, we decided to take it slow today, and then head out for a few days jungle trek/kayak trip.
So... pictures (AND LOTS OF THEM) coming up in the Picasa album, Ruut and Sophia are working on it at the moment.
And since I am ill, again, I thought it's time to reveal how we've really been doing, when the blog's been all chirpitty-chirp-happy.
We've been as happy alright, just not as well as we've let you believe.