Stories about Travel in Vientiane
North Loas, still without a hurryChang Noi - changnoi1 [625] After 1 week in the south of Laos we left Don Khong with our big open pickup truck to Pakse to take there the VIP night bus to Vientiane. The roads again were very good and the bus did stop one...
Destinations:
Pakxe |
Vientiane |
Laos |
Luang Prabang |
Plain of Jars
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Kayaking AdventureMaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427] Kayaking down the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang in Laos...
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Luang Prabang |
Laos |
Lancang-Mekong River
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A Communist Leader Hat TrickMaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427] An athlete who scores three goals in a game is said to have achieved a hat trick. In Laos I visited my third Communist Leader memorial. My hat trick accomplishment was a rather surreal experience.
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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Sticky RiceMaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427] After living in Asia for three years I thought I had tried every kind of rice dish imaginable. Laos held proved me wrong.
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Pakxan |
Luang Prabang |
Vang Vieng |
Savannakhet |
Pakxe |
Luang Namtha |
Laos |
Plain of Jars |
Lancang-Mekong River
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Laos the tranquillityNatnapha Thanatharakit - the_orient [430] As I can see, there is something both travelers and local people here have in common: their lives move at a languid pace..
Destinations:
Vang Vieng |
Vientiane |
Laos |
Luang Prabang
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Thai town in uproar over charges that fireball phenomenon is fakedAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188] Residents of a remote town in northern Thailand are up in arms over a TV investigation which found that a famous fireball phenomenon in the Mekong River which draws hordes of tourists annually could...
Destinations:
Nong Khai province |
Vientiane |
Laos |
Thailand
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The Kindness of Strangers. September 11th in Laos.Kim Fay - kfay [7,382] Day One In the spider-infested, two-dollar-a-night Arimid Guesthouse, in the grimy Lao border town of Huay Xai, I wake too early for comfort. Still half asleep, along with my sister, Julie, and our...
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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A Pleasant 'Hell' in LaosDonald Gilliland - dgilliland [4,036] Just outside the city limits of Vientiane, our little old bus bounced down the dusty two-lane road towards the Friendship Bridge that connects Laos and Thailand. Just beyond that bridge, on the Laos...
Destinations:
Nong Khai province |
Vientiane |
Laos |
Thailand
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LaosJulie Fay - jfay [81] A story told with photos.
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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Vientiane PromenadeTom Cockrem - tcockren [1,959] "The Mother of all Rivers" is what Lao people call this wide and torpid stream that meanders for 1,800 kilometres along the country's western edge. It's easy to see why. For the millennium or so since...
Destinations:
Vientiane |
Laos
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