Matt woke up earlier than me and opened the door for some air and so I spent a very pleasent hour or two dozing off and waking up to the karst view outside our door.
We spent the rest of morning blogging on the balcony and munching on fruit. We later discovered that, contrary to what we had heard so far, Laos food can be very tasty indeed. We found a lovely restaurant that was run by a local guy who spent some time chatting to us and answering our questions. He told us that businesses in Laos pay a fixed fee for tax every month, regardless of how much money they make and so sometimes he had to go back to rice farming to make the money to pay the bills. Considering how many restaurants there are even in this small place, and how few people are currently here in the low season, it must be hard for most of them to make ends meet.
Unfortunately, our surprise ATM had a further surprise for us and was now out of order and so we were on very limited funds. Luckily for us, you don't have to spend much to enjoy a balcony view and watch TV series on the laptop so we took advantage of this.
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