A short paddle

To get out of Luang Prabang and to give us a brief Beerlaos interval we arranged a kayaking trip that would take us down the Nam Ou River to the Pak Ou Cave, where we'd meet the Mekong and continue on a short way back towards town. Our guide was an ex-novice (monk) who quit after deciding that the transition from 20 to 270 rules would be too difficult for him to handle.
The trip was fantastic with mostly calm waters but plenty of activity along the way, with locals bathing, fishing and tending to their crops. The cave, with a huge collection of buddha's, was our lunch stop and worth a 5 minute look and from there we entered the Mekong and dodged longboats down to a village that makes laos-laos, a highly unrecommended petrol-like whisky.