We went to a silk weaving shop where we watched women work silk from raw silk to dying, setting up the loom and finally to hand weaving on wooden frames one row at a time. It was fascinating to see how each traditional pattern is created. Easy to see why real patterned silk is so expensive.
We sort of took the afternoon off reading and drinking coffee before heading out to the traditional dinner and dance performance for which we had reservations.
Greg, all of those traditional foods we had for lunch that day were part of the set menu but in this case they were all delicious! They presented us with soup, seven different dishes plus fruit and it was all really great. Laotian food is redeemed. The dance performances were interesting to watch- a great finale to our stay here.
Off to Luang Prabang.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!
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