Sorry we are catching up with ourselves it has been really hectic and no chance to get on the Internet for any sensible amount of time. Currently I ( Lou) am sitting in a Internet cafe in the capital city of Laos Vientiane.
Since our last installment in Chengdu ( which ended a little bit messily in a night club and a bottle of whisky on the house!) We left on the 15th April avec le hangover for two flights, first to Kunming and the second to our destination Jinghong !
First thing to notice was walking off the plane the humidity and temperature had gone to tropical , ouch ! and our timing had landed in the end of the new year water celebrations for this area of the world.
Jinghong is super cool! It is china but not like the china we have seen it is more like Thailand and no where else in china would they be celebrating the new year like this ! We arrived to be greeted by water cannons out of the airport, we couldn't get off the bus without being super soaked !! The whole group was as excited as a bunch of teenagers when we saw the scale of the water fights happening ! Basically the wetter you get the more blessed you are for the new year. Without a joke ( see piccie!!) Within 5 minutes of walking out the hotel i was soaked by a bucket of water chucked at me by a local, unfortunately my colouring of pale skin blonde hair and blue eyes made me a super target, to the extent that no one wanted to stand near me as they would have also got the brunt. We were the only westerners there to experience such an amazing event, and boy did we know it , we bravely walked to the main park with all the lakes and water reserves, we almost got drowned standing up , no joke , we were such an attraction to get soaked ! Luckily we didn't take our camera with us as a few who did , even though they were wrapped up in a plastic bag are now buying new cameras !
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