Luang Prabang is a little historical town built on a peninsula between the Mekong and Namkhan rivers. It is very well kept and the houses have a southern french architectures. If it were not for the many temples and the people who would not guess you were in Laos. Luang Prabang is still a backpakers city, but for the ones that have been out of college for a while but don't have a life insurance yet!
We visited the royal palace that is now a museum, built by the French for a king who seems pretty sold to the foreign power and paid high price for it (probably dying with his all family in a cave).
The temples are very different from the ones we have seen up to now, and one of the few that was not destroyed by pirates has still beautiful painting on wood from top to bottom
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