After three days of rain we finally went on a day tour. We started with a ride on top of an elephant near the river. Elephants here did not seem badly treated, or at least they were allowed to grab some tree branches and bamboo whilst stumping. They are a bit smaller here than in other areas.
After the elephant ride we crossed the Mekong on a very long Laotian boat to visit Pak Ou Caves, carved in a limestone cliff, another sacred place full of buddha statues inside.
We then had a basic lunch - as Laotian food is really superb -, and drove back to Luang Prabang, this time to set on to the waterfalls, after a coffee stop - this thanks to two French ladies who came up with the idea -. We had a stop before at a "Whiskey village", which is basically a market where we tasted some local rice whine and saw a display of whiskey bottles with cobras, snakes, lizards... inside.
Finally we arrived at Kuang Si Falls at 3:15pm, and one couldn't help thinking why on earth didn't we arrive earlier. The falls are truly stunning, like one of those postcard-perfect pictures you find in a Chinese restaurant. They are really one of the most beautiful waterfalls I've ever seen. There were cascades everywhere and the water had a dark whitish green color that it's hard to believe it's their natural color. I climbed to the top of the cliff, where there were some pools with a slide and people hanging around, and back to the lower pools where I finally had a dive. This was no doubt the highlight of the trip.
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