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11 July 2010 Day 4 – Luang Prabang Ghislain started the day earlier and got up at 5:30 am to take some more photos of Luang Prabang town. The morning light is great for taking photos. We all then met Joy and his wife Caroline, the owners of the Tamarind restaurant and cooked two very [...]

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10 July 2010 Day 3 – Villages just outside of Luang Prabang This morning we were meeting three different ethnic villages to cook with them and get their special recipes. The villages are about 30 km outside of Luang Prabang and our very helpful travel agent whom we had met the previous day, met us [...]

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9 July 2010 Day 2 – Luang Prabang We started the day at 5am by going to see the monks giving alms. It is very picturesque with the beautiful morning light and it was something we just had to see, despite it now being very popular with tourists. We then went to the early morning [...]

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8 July 2010 Day 1 – Vientiane to Luang Prabang We were supposed to leave Vientiane at 7:30am but the driver, our guiding star Ket and our cooking teacher Madame Vone arrived 45 minutes earlier. Since we had to rush to get on the road, we did not have time to eat breakfast so we [...]

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