老挝:回归简单的闲适生活 (下)_英美文化

老挝:回归简单的闲适生活 (下)

The eating houses of Luang Prabang are the best in the country. Here is the place to try out a cuisine that is much-loved in neighbouring Thailandbut difficult to find elsewhere in the world. Plus, its stylish, tourist-targeted shops bear dangerous testimony to the countrys French past; as well as pretty antiques there are tasteful modern 43)reworkings of old textiles and 44)objet trouv (particularly 45)covetable are the silver tip khao).

琅勃拉邦的餐馆是全国最好的。在这里一定要试试备受邻国泰国人喜爱的老挝菜，因为在世界上其他地方不容易尝到。此外，琅勃拉邦那些颇有品位，专做游客生意的店铺，还有那些高雅的古董店里陈列着的精美的古董复制品（特别吸引人的是那些银质的竹篓）都印证着这个国家曾为法国殖民地的过去。

But, this being Laos, you only need to cross the river to forget about shops and restaurants, about modernity itself. Hire a bicycle in town and 46)hitch a ride with a local boatman for a couple of dollars, and you can cycle out into the paddy fields and villages. Stop occasionally to watch the locals playing their version of 47)boules, or marvel at a tiny child atop a bicycle built for someone three times their size, or another child skillfully 48)cleaving a chicken in the yard. Glimpse a mother rocking her baby in a cradle strung between the stilts under the house, or watch a farmer and his family constantly bent, it seems, in the rice paddies. And then when you cycle back to the river bank, the boatman is waiting for you. And he is, of course, smiling.