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2004-09-02, Vang Vieng, Laos. By: lomotravel | | day of unexpected delirium awaited me as i rose hesitantly out of my bed, the fan keeping me a constant temperature, the shower waking life back into me. i headed over to the restaurant for a breakfas... |
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| a first in september
2004-09-01, Vang Vieng, Laos. By: lomotravel | | the sun woke me up, late, ashamedly i rose, showered, exited my hotel, walked onto a sunbaked and sun-blushed street, took a seat at a restaurant on stilts by the mekong, affording views of swaying pa... |
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| a sleepy town in the country
2004-08-26, Vang Vieng, Laos. By: lomotravel | | yawn.... yawn... so i did arrive in vang vienne, finally.. i got the public bus, sat in direct sunlight for 4 hours on butt-numbing seats, but c'est la vie!! life is beautiful. this place reminds me a... |
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| arsenal and temples
2004-08-24, vientiane, Laos. By: lomotravel | | two days have gone pretty fast here, from the lazy lie ins to the strolls down to the river side, to finding a pub on my first night here and watching the arsenal game (5-3!!), going to the markets, s... |
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| under a laos sky
2004-08-22, laos, Laos. By: lomotravel | | and in such a short time laos has carved its way into my heart with smiling people, beautiful nature and cheap beer. i arrived in vientiane after a 12 hour bus ride from bangkok which dropped me off a... |
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 | Laos - Capitals Old and New
2004-08-12, Laos, Laos. By: kelen | | Laos - Capitals Old and New
We landed in Luang Prabang minus two crucial members of our party (Toots & Linko) who, no thanks to Northwest Airlines, arrived a day later than planned. The earlier arr... |
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 | In search of the real Laos
2004-07-18, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: liazbiatch | | Luang Prabang was highly recommended by every backpacker and and travel guide that I picked up. From the flight in I could see why. The rolling green mountains are dotted with gold and red temples,... |
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 | 5,000 islands
2004-05-11, Pakxe, Laos. By: rachael | | Now we are in the area known as the 5 thousand islands. There is no internet down there so I am up here on my own because I have some work to do. We will be down there for about two weeks and then i... |
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 | Trekking
2004-04-27, Muong Ngoy, Laos. By: eberglund | | The last 10 days or so we have been out in the Laos countryside without mobile phone network coverage, internet and even electricity, but now we are back in Vientiane to get an extension on our Visas ... |
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| Trek 1 in Non Keow with Mung
2004-05-07, Vientiane, Laos. By: rachael | | Here is what we have been upto for the past 2 weeks...(i am only going to include the highlights otherwise you would just get too tierd!).
To let you know so far, this is the route we have taken in... |
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| Vientianne
2004-04-07, Vientiane, Laos. By: rachael | | Hi there!
I have just written loads to paste in here (it took me 1.5 hours) and now i've deleted it by accident and i can't get it back to i am too mad at myself to sit here and write it again just... |
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| Luang Prabang
2004-04-19, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: rachael | | We have arrived in Muang Noi. The town has a lots of guest houses anc accomodation and there were no problems travelling on the 'scary' route 13 road. And we travelled on a public bus. The scenery ... |
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| Going to Luang Pabang
2004-04-17, Vientiane, Laos. By: eberglund | | Hello to you all!
New photos finally finally uploaded! If you check the first entries from India they should appear on that page.
We have successfully negotiated the Lao Immigration and here we ... |
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| We made it!
2004-04-16, Vientiane, Laos. By: rachael | | Now we are in LAOS!! It's nothing like what the guide book describes (but we are in the capital so i expect standards to deteriorate as soon as we leave....). The capital, Vientiane, is just like ch... |
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 | Travelling in Southen Laos
2004-01-31, Laos, Laos. By: philstone | | I've finally discovered the secret to long distance bus journeys in
Asia! It's the cheap, over the counter availibility of Valium! A couple
of those when I got on the bus to Pakse was enough t... |
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 | up a creek......
2003-10-03, Nam Ha, Laos. By: shatner | | 03/10/03
After a bumpy 4 hr ride through the Nam Ha NBCA we arrived at our guest house in Vieng Phouka to find no-one there. We unloaded all the equipment (rafts, kayaks, tents etc.) and then had ... |
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| Travel in Northern Laos
2004-01-10, Northern Laos, Laos. By: philstone | | "You selfish westerner! You in Thailand, you obey the Law! You very f**king selfish man!
This was the, in my opinion, rather extreme reaction from the small Thai man in front of me upon finding out t... |
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 | To boldly go...
2003-09-20, Southern Laos, Laos. By: shatner | | 20th - 22nd September: Pakse
Arrived in Pakse at about 14:00hrs, sorted out a hotel and headed down to the river to arrange a boat down to Wat Phu Ngoi and then onto Champasak.
21st September: W... |
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| How Soon is Laos?
2003-09-05, Vientiane, Laos. By: shatner | | 5th - 7th September: Vientiane
Touch down in Laos. The flight had saved us 24 hours on a bus from
hanoi.
After several false starts regarding dodgy guest houses and hotels we found our temporar... |
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 | We're out of here
2002-11-19, Savannakhet, Laos. By: fatseas | | Despite incurring the wrath of the visa man at the embassy for taking photos in their grounds, we managed to pick up our Vietnam visas this afternoon - at last!
We head out of Savannakhet tomorrow ... |
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 | Pissy Dialup Sharing
2002-11-17, Savannakhet, Laos. By: fatseas | | Laos in many ways is like a return to the past. The cable modem is but a glint in the eye of the average internet cafe owner, and the proof of this pudding is in the time taken to log into Hotmail. ... |
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 | Norfloxacin rules
2002-11-14, Savannakhet, Laos. By: fatseas | | 10 November - Vientiane to Thabok 94km
After a lazy day and half in Vientiane, sipping fruit shakes by the river and fending off the lovely but irrepressible Vietnamese hawkers, we loaded up the bi... |
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 | Lazy Meandering Mekong
2002-11-09, Vientiane, Laos. By: fatseas | | After the phrenetic nature of Thailand, sleepy Laos seems like a pleasant morning dream where you know it's a dream, but don't really want to wake.
In some ways the place is very similar to Thail... |
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