Luang Prabang – Laos
- Renata
- 11 de nov. de 2016
- 2 min de leitura
It was the 23th stop of the “Reviravolta ao Mundo”.
It is a very friendly city with a night market and a temple with a beautiful view of the city.
It also has some streets with buildings from the time of the French colonization. It is very charming and well worth the visit. There were beautiful restaurants and boutique hotels.
The interesting thing to do in Luang Prabang was to see the monks in the morning walking through the city streets receiving food from the locals (we saw rice, cooked vegetables and sweets). They collect food for the only meal they have in the day and they can also share with their family. It is a ritual that takes place since the 14th century. The monks go out of the temples at sunrise and go through the streets collecting the offers from the people kneeling or sitting in the street. This ceremony is known as “Alms Giving”.
Of course, if tourists want to offer something to the monks and have not brought anything, there are always some people selling cookies and chocolate, inviting the tourists to sit with the others and offer too.
We visited a beautiful waterfall with turquoise blue lakes. To walk to the top of the waterfall is very worthwhile. It looks like a hidden garden with a stunning view.
We took a time to explore the non-tourist part of town. We’ve found restaurants with foods that we didn’t know what it was, so we didn’t take the risk. But we also found a kind of a Brazilian biscuit called “biju” in Brazil and sugarcane juice in the bag. Very good!
* Visited in March / 2016
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