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If there ever needed to be a poster child for the glamour of French Indochine, Luang Prabang would be it.
Graceful two-story buildings from the 1920s and 30s line its streets, adorned with dark wooden shutters and luxurious balconies, flanked by gleaming, even sidewalks and lazy palm trees swaying their fronds over the tiled rooflines. Luang Prabang isn't just a nice place in Southeast Asia, it's so chic it could give Cannes a run for its money.
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I'm nearing the end of my trip (just 26 days to go!), so I thought I'd verbally dump my backpack out for you to see everything I've needed for backpacking for four months in Southeast Asia.
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Buildings in Mumbai, 2009
I have a confession to make. I did something really lame. I read "Eat, Pray, Love."
There it was on the shelf of a used bookstore in Pai. Well, there wasn't just one. There were, like, twenty old copies on the shelf. I'd been mocking the book since I'd first seen it lying on a table at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square in Manhattan. I'd probably held it up for my friend Sarah, who I was probably meeting there before heading on for a glass of wine, and gone, "Ugh, have you seen this? This looks awful! I mean, how cliché, finding herself in India and Italy and Indonesia?! So obvious."
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Tiles in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia ... and some really dirty feet (mine)
Let's start at the ground, shall we, and work our way up.
For starters, there's my feet. If you look at the tops of my feet, they're fine. They're in the same pair of flip flops they've been in since I zipped open my backpack in Bangkok. If I take off the flip flops, you'll see gleaming baby-white skin shining out from the darkest, goldenest brown tan you've ever seen. At least I think it's a tan. My feet might also just be really dirty.
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