 | Arrival in Laos
2008-03-02, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: GBrownlie | | We left Chiang Mai on 28 Feb and embarked on a 3 day 2 night trip to Laos. 8 hours on a mini bus, 7 hours on a slow boat then 8.5 hours on another slow boat with overnight stays in small villages. The... |
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 | Riding the Mekong
2008-03-13, Pakse, Laos. By: Damo | | After 80kms into my first day out of Vientiane, during which I was feeling fantastic being fully fit once more and on the flats, I stopped by the side of the road for a drinks break. Beginning just f... |
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 | My Gifts
2008-03-10, Pakse, Laos. By: Damo | | Those who are closest to me will say that I am a very physically affectionate person. I like to be touched and touch those around me.
In November last year, I was sitting overlooking the lake at H... |
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 | Easy like Sunday Morning
2006-12-20, Vientiane, Laos. By: frankieboy | | Laos
After the first three countries Laos was like a quiet Sunday afternoon. Less traffic, less aggressive commerce and a whole lot of nothing going on. The capital city was one of the quietess tha... |
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 | A Lone Ranger Once More
2008-02-21, Vientiane, Laos. By: Damo | | It was difficult to find a reason to do so, but eventually Luke and I departed idyllic Muang Ngoi and headed south for the world heritage listed city of Luang Prabang. Set on a peninsula where the Na... |
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 | Festival Season Begins
2008-02-11, Vientiane, Laos. By: mala | | The countries of South East Asia share a time of year rich in traditional celebrations and time-honored festivals. Independance days, Buddhist holidays, anamist rituals...even Chinese New Year.
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 | Sabaydee!!
2008-02-10, Vientiane, Laos. By: Damo | | One guidebook says that upon entering the most relaxed country in SE Asia, “travelers utter a distinct “aaah”.” This was exactly my reaction when I crossed the border into Laos, particularly since I’... |
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 | Snake Whisky Anyone?
2005-08-20, Done Xao, Laos. By: travelalex | | The race continues… Today we traveled for countless hours across Northern Thailand, through Hill Tribe and Long Neck territory to reach the Asia’s 2nd largest illicit opiate area, the Golden Triangle.... |
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 | An Air Of Prosperity
2008-02-08, Luang Phrabang, Laos. By: mala | | The tourists of Luang Phrabang have arrived during a crisis of supply and demand. The number of tourists is growing at rate faster than the town can build guesthouses. We heard horror story after stor... |
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 | All Along The Mekong
2008-02-06, Pak beng, Laos. By: mala | | The Mekong. As far as rivers go, that's a pretty famous one. So, despite my book's insistance that the slowboat is something to be endured like a badge of honor, we just had to do it.
From low expe... |
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 | Tubes, Swings and LOADS of FRIENDS
2007-10-15, Vang Vieng, Laos. By: sandman | | I arrived in Vang Veing after a much less stressfull bus ride where I slept a bit, and there was a chicken, and some guy smoking opium in front of me. But it was good!
The town was great right off... |
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| VIP to the Jars
2007-10-15, Phonsavan, Laos. By: sandman | | Hello again
I made it to "Nam" unscathed last night. After spending 5 hrs waiting in Vientien Airport I finally caught my flight to Hanoi. This city is full of these insano drivers that stop for no... |
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| Fast boat or Slow Boat
2007-10-08, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: sandman | | Today I find myself in a city called Luang Prabang in the country of Laos.
I had a great last couple of days in Tokyo, went to the fish market which is one of the largest in the world! To go to th... |
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 | Sabai-dee!!!
2007-09-19, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: ani | | Sabai-dee!!
So far, not much exciting to report I'm afraid. Then again I haven't braved the transport system here yet - from the stories I've been hearing that's sure to provide a few interestin... |
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 | What's My Name?
2007-07-06, Vientiane, Laos. By: mashman | | There was a time, long ago, when I would explain at length, the difference between The Black Country and Birmingham, and how everyone kept getting it wrong. I gave up on this before i'd even reached ... |
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 | Vang Vieng and Vientiane
2007-07-05, Vientiane, Laos. By: mashman | | There is of course, a downside to relentless use of local buses - long, bumpy journeys with a severe lack of sleep. Heading back south from our adventures with the northern Laos hill tribes, I set a ... |
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 | Adventures With The Village People
2007-06-25, Muang Sing, Laos. By: mashman | | Bouncy, rattletrap local buses carrying sacks of rice along deteriorating roads in the monsoon, i've decided, is definitely the way to travel. As the rains arrived again, Sarah and I bucked the touri... |
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 | Slow Boating and Chav Dodging
2007-06-15, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: mashman | | Boarding another all too easy tourist bus out of Chiang Mai again didn't fill me with excitement, but got me to the border with Laos at least. My bus mates were a friendly, predominently Irish crowd ... |
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 | Slowing Down
2007-04-11, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: sjwacnc | | We traveled from Savannakhet to Pakse in a local bus that they filled to the brim. People were sitting on plastic chairs in the ailse. We stayed a night in Pakse then continued down to 4000 Islands. W... |
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 | Bus to Boat
2007-04-07, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: tannerscot | | One of the first things you notice once you start to head north from Vientiane is the smoky haze in the air. This time of year the farmers burn anything and everything so the visability isn't so great... |
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 | Peaceful Laos
2007-04-03, Savannakhet, Laos. By: sjwacnc | | It has been a while since we have written and we have covered a lot of ground. From Hue we caught an overnight bus to Hanoi. In Hanoi we paid our respects to Ho Chi Min as he is on show in his mausole... |
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 | next stop . . . ?
2007-04-01, Vientiane, Laos. By: tannerscot | | Vientiane has been a much needed change of pace. Everyone smiles, says hello . . . and then happily continues on their way. What's missing? Well, it took me a while to realize they weren't going to tr... |
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 | The Fairest of them All
2007-03-30, Vientiane, Laos. By: tannerscot | | I made it! . . . 24 hours later! I was actually a bit surprised things went as smoothly as they did. I'll back up though: Leaving Hanoi felt great; on the way to the bus station in the cab I new I had... |
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 | 20 hour journey to the 5000 Islands
2007-02-01, Don Det, Laos. By: hamsouth | | We started our first coach journey at about 8pm.The coach looked in pretty good condition and was one of the nicest ones we've been on yet.We didn't feel too bad in the morning, but woke up to the coa... |
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 | Visa stop
2007-01-28, Vientiane, Laos. By: hamsouth | | Vientiane
We spent just 1 night in this large city but that was enough for us.Our main reason of coming here was just to pick up a Cambodian visa which was alot cheaper here and ready in 1 day.We d... |
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 | Luang prabang
2007-01-26, Luang prabang, Laos. By: hamsouth | | Luang Prabang
Luang prabang is a small village that has its own character and alot of French influence.We spent afew days here just wondering about.We visited 2 of the many temples and spent most o... |
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 | Vang Vieng
2007-01-27, Vang Vieng, Laos. By: hamsouth | | Viang Vieng
This was another small village more like one big street really.Every we went here the bars and restaurants were playing either a film or friends which although was nice it is just somew... |
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 | On our way on a slow boat!
2007-01-25, Laos, Laos. By: janekir | | We left Thailand on the 24th of January for a slow boat to take us along the Mekong to Laos. The journey took 2 days with a stop over for the night in Pak Beng. The first day was pretty heavy going ... |
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 | The Gibbon Experience
2007-01-20, Houay Xai, Laos. By: hamsouth | | After just over a week we finally set off to the jungle for the Gibbon experience. We all jumped into the back of the truck and off we went. After about two and a half hours on our favourite bumpy roa... |
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 | Kayaking all day
2007-01-16, Luang namtha, Laos. By: hamsouth | | We both decided that we should do something to pass the time because we still had afew days to spare.The kayaking was for one day so we thought it would be a good idea.
We set off at about 10 ish i... |
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 | Market surprise and herbal heaven
2007-01-15, Luang namtha, Laos. By: hamsouth | | Weve had afew days back in the dusty town because we are still waiting to go to the Gibbon experince. We have just been doing our washing and chillin out talking to other travellers and playing alot o... |
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 | Even dustier town
2007-01-14, Muang sing, Laos. By: hamsouth | | We Set off to another town 2 hours away that we had been told was an up and comin place with lots of back packers and a really nice market, yeh dont think so somebodies been lieing.
We had landed ... |
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 | Slap bag in the middle of nowhere.
2007-01-13, luang namtha, Laos. By: hamsouth | | We awoke after a long and well deserved sleep. We had looked round the night before and there was not alot to do here but trek and as we were going to be doin some in the next week we decided to hire ... |
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