 | The soaking really begins!
2009-04-19, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: aimee | | After two very relaxing (and uncomfortable) days travelling down the Mekong river on a slow boat we finally reached Luang Prabang which is a very beautiful town and usually quite peaceful but not this... |
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 | Luang Prabang
2008-12-05, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: rossnkaren | | The bus journey to Luang Prabang was even worse than the one to the plain of jars. The roads were similarly mountainous and bumpy i.e. Laos roads but the bus was so full that people had to sit on pla... |
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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | Huay xai to Luang pra bang on another slow boat
2007-01-23, Luang prabang, Laos. By: hamsouth | | Feeling abit rough from the night before and still tired from the Gibbons experience we set off early down the Mekong river on yet another slowboat, this time for 2 days with a 1 night stop over in a ... |
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| Easy VISA.....and Is the Laos Fast Boat Deadly?
2006-09-26, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: gertjonnys | | So, here I am traveling to Laos, a country that I just picked up a guide book for a few days before leaving Thailand. I was lucky to find out that the borders opened up between Laos and Thailand a fe... |
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 | pics on my other site.
2006-04-04, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: marieoeva | | Check out my new pics on the other site.
[url]http://spaces.msn.com/marieoeva[/url]
Some of them are pretty cool. Probably wont be writing anymore in this one. Maybe to give you a message that I... |
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| Have to change my site.
2006-04-03, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: marieoeva | | Hey there everybody
I have changed my site for this traveljournal. It is now:
[url]http://spaces.msn.com/marieoeva[/url]
This site is giving me so much trouble I cant stand it anymore. The ot... |
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 | Luang Prabang
2005-11-14, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: graham78 | | We arrived in Luang Prabang after yet another long bus journey, with some form of dodgy karaoke blaring out. I have to say I am beginning to get use to these long bus journeys, which is quite surprisi... |
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 | Package Tour
2005-12-13, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: Heath_Kel | | Travel in Thailand has been great and very easy and from talking with others, it should continue to be that way on the relatively well-beaten path around SE Asia. Quite contrary to what we had expecte... |
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 | Observing Luang Prabang
2005-12-11, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: exploring | | Luang Prabang is a city in the northern part of Laos. It sits between two rivers. The people are relaxed and pleasant. Markets are for the day and for the night, and people stroll at 'brousing pace' l... |
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 | Missed of last update
2005-08-02, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: minesh | | Guys and Gals
Two things i missed of my last update (was in such a rush to please the editor!)
One.. while in chang mai (thailand) went to see some Thai Kick Boxing.. it was mainly kids fighting... |
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| Laid Back in Laos
2005-08-02, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: minesh | | Well its been a few weeks since I left Aus, and I find myself in Laos after going through Malaysia and Thailand... and I can tell you, this is one of the best places I have been too... so laid back, h... |
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 | Wonderful weather and waterfalls
2005-11-21, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: day1 | | Picking up where we left off....the journey to Luang Prabang from Vang Vieng was lovely...8 hours or so through gorgeous countryside and green mountains. Bobby and Becky brought us to a place they had... |
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 | Every day is like Sunday
2005-11-14, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: jeffhilton | | The main thing that I think has changed about me since I started travelling is my new-found tolerance to long journies on public transport. In fact, if you look at some of my other stories you'll see ... |
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 | Welcome to the home of Asia's best beer!
2005-10-04, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: roh | | We opted to fly from Chiang Mai to Luang Prabang in Laos. Mainly out of laziness but also to save a bit of time, and Wil pretty much got his ticket for free from the tax he claimed back for his laptop... |
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 | Update
2004-07-12, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: georgeyp | | me and benny are currently laos in a city called luang Prabang we got here yesterday after 3 days of travel. the first day involved a bus trip up to a place called chaing khong which is north thailand... |
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 | Ready to go home.
2005-07-26, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: tati | | I left Brasil first of january. When I was planning this trip, I was suppose to stay away only for 2 months, but 10 days before I left, everything changed. I decided I wanted to go for one year and I... |
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 | Metting in Vientiene
2005-07-25, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: tati | | I left Bangkok on the 22th morning. I was ready to go to Vientiene and stay a few days there and then go North. Well, during the flight, the guy sitting next to me asked if i had a visa. I said yes, h... |
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| Amazing Thailand
2005-07-25, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: tati | | Internet sometimes makes me so angy. I was finally writing about Thailand and everything suddenly disappeared. I lost everything. I'm gonna write again! Hopefully it will work this time!!!!!
Ok, a... |
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 | Not writing so much
2005-07-24, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: tati | | Hey guys,
I arrived in Laos on the 22th.
I haven't written here for a long time.
The reality in Asia is so diferent, I don't feel like staying hours on the internet, but I promise to write. Do... |
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 | thailand...in the jungle.
2005-06-26, luang prabang, Laos. By: hmakwana | | Had a great day today. Went to a tiger sanctuary where they are just out in the wild!! It was amazing, we could stroke them, take pictures, they would never allow it here- a must do!
We also went... |
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 | Monks, Temples, and Waterfalls
2005-03-13, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: cyfer13 | | Sa Ba Dee (Hello in Laos)
So the last couple of days have been a whirlwind of site seeing and waterfalls. I've been hanging out with 2 Canadian girls that I met on the boat, and then today hung out... |
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 | Bonjour from French Asia....and resting the bottom.
2005-03-05, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: tcassie | | Arriving in Luang Prabang was a fantastic feeling after being on the boat for two days, it was a pleasure to give our butts a rest!
Luang Prabang, as we mentioned in the last journal, has been desi... |
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 | Safe in Laos
2004-12-27, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: seta76 | | I'm saddened to hear of the events that happened yesterday in SE Asia. I just learned about it this morning because we didn't have electricity yesterday.
I luckily left Koh Phayam, the island wher... |
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 | Xmas day at the Royal Theater
2004-12-25, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: seta76 | | I started my morning cycling over the pedestrian bridge over the Mekong to the small villages around LP. I stopped at a morning market and bought some fruit and continued my way towards the golden te... |
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 | Merry Christmas from Luang Prabang, Laos
2004-12-24, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: seta76 | | The pictures are true...this town...not a city in any world standards...is magical...the french colonial influence, the dozens of golden Wats (temple), and hundreds of orange clothed monks that walk t... |
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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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 | 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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 | Monk(ey)s Tea Party
2002-01-27, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: nsuffield | | Up early at 6am to see the monks do their morning walkabout collecting alms from the local people. A huge line of tourists lined on the path, locals frantically pushing orange flowers and punnets of ... |
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 | There's no wine in this
2002-01-26, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: nsuffield | | Woke up to a misty morning with fog hovering over the rivers. We sat in a cafe sipping our tea and looking down the quiet streets. It was slightly cool and calm - a bit like an autumn sunday back home... |
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| Italian Job ... Laos style
2002-01-25, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: nsuffield | | Took the bus in the morning to Luang Prabang, following windey roads through mountains that looked like black eroding teeth ... with spinach. Clouds drifted over them and occasionally over us making t... |
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 | Lovely Luang Prabang...
2002-05-02, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: oncearound | | Hello again from a new land of hot sun and an ever-present sweaty brow...
We arrived safely via the speedboat in Luang Prabang with a complimentary souvenir sunburn to remember our time on the Mekh... |
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| The Mighty Mighty Mekong
2002-04-30, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: oncearound | | After crossing the Mekong by ferry, we found ourselves at the Lao P.D.R. immigration office. We crossed from Chiang Khong, Thailand into Huay Xai, Laos and the differences were not readily apparent. ... |
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 | Beeg bugs.
2002-03-08, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: dan | | Sabaa di! I trotted across the border to Laos a few days ago, and on the bus to the border was accompanied by 4 baskets of courgettes and, of course, the obligatory chicken (complete with beady eye)... |
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| Only a quick visit
2002-01-26, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: nsuffield | | We got to Luang Prabang quite late in the evening, only to find out that all rooms had been booked out or were ridiculously expensive. We didn't give up though and managed to find a sweet little hotel... |
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 | Millionaires
2001-11-10, Luang Prabang, Laos. By: cpeely | | As we stood at the beaureu der black market currency I couldn't decide whether to leg it or jump for joy as it looked like Pete had just robbed the place. In his sweating mits was more notage than a ... |
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