{"id":470,"date":"2007-02-26T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=470"},"modified":"2014-02-07T22:25:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T04:25:02","slug":"luang-prabang-the-wonder-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"luang prabang &#8211; the wonder years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The overnight bus was an experience.  We&#8217;re still too used to being in Australia, and are alarmed when they haul a moped onto the roof of the bus by hand, and tie it on (along with the rest of our luggage).  I gain an appreciation of Thai and Laos karaoke, and am enthralled by Thai kung fu movies with tuk-tuk chases.  The 5am arrival in Luang Prabang lets us watch the sunrise &#8230; if we could be bothered&#8230;  Most of the first day is spent asleep, and then watching locals play bocce by the side of the road.  This is followed up by a careful surveillance of the night market<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/135081450-S.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Night Market, Luang Prabang, Laos<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bikes are hired the next day, and we ride around town on our sweet Chinese style single-speeds.  I am shocked and apalled when I realise our 1000kip\/10min internet (US$0.10\/10min) is faster than my internet connection at home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/135085043-S.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Cycling around, Luang Prabang, Laos<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overnight bus was an experience. We&#8217;re still too used to being in Australia, and are alarmed when they haul a moped onto the roof of the bus by hand, and tie it on (along with the rest of our luggage). I gain an appreciation of Thai and Laos karaoke, and am enthralled by Thai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,21,17],"tags":[54,1547,66,1472,65,68,1544],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-general","category-travel","category-trip-reports","tag-bike","tag-bikes","tag-laos","tag-laosthai2007","tag-luang-prabang","tag-market","tag-travel"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=29\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">trip reports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">trip reports<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bike<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">laos<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">laosthai2007<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">luang prabang<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">market<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=17\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bike<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">laos<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">laosthai2007<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">luang prabang<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">market<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"4","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 19 years ago","modified":"Updated 12 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 26.2.2007","modified":"Updated on 7.2.2014"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 26.2.2007 4:49 pm","modified":"Updated on 7.2.2014 10:25 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}