Travellers Tale's

I have heard many strange things on this holiday - and will update this as more comes to mind!!

I mentioned in an earlier post how people traveling together often get closer than most friends back home, sharing stories of bowel problems, going in the bush, and other usually taboo subjects (well, for most polite young ladies anyhow) or things you just might not wanna know - here are a few that are amusing or just plain bizarre.

Would you rub this on your Penis?
One girl I met while traveling, while sharing that she and the guy she had hooked up with had broken the shower rail in the room we were all sharing during a particularly passionate moment also burst out: "We had sex with Tiger Balm". She reports this was not that  bad and she would do it again. I can't imagine asking someone to rub Tiger Balm on the crown jewels would go down well. Apparently the man in question had needed coercing!

On the boat to the Pak Ou caves in Luang Prabang: 
As my friend Evy and I often slip into French (both needing to practice and both equally crap at it) I commented at something "Quel dommage!!" which means "What a pity."
 "Is that cheese?" asks Maxine.
Ahhh Quel Fromage - not today it isn't!!

Chinese timing:
On the same boat a French woman was in a heated argument with a man over how much she was paying for the trip and ticket to the caves. A Chinese woman traveling on her own interrupts mid-sentence, shoving her camera in the man's hand and asks him to take a photo. It was so confident and unconcerned with whatever was going on. She HAD to have that picture of herself at that moment.
When we got to the path and someone ordered us to pay for yet another entrance ticket, we all stand arguing with the man (we had paid the boat company we thought). Our Chinese friend again buts in, camera in hand for a photo of herself. She also managed to sneak past without paying.
"That woman is my hero," sighed one of the girls.

On a river beach chilling with friends in Don Det, under the light of the full moon.
Token stoned Israeli with waist length dreadlocks, dopey voice and little music rattle things says:
"Smell my hair, it smells like the Mekong."