Luang Prabang is a really nice city. The streets are clean, pleasant to walk along and are lined with nice buildings. There’s heaps of good restaurants and pubs. The pace is slow […]
Luang Prabang, Laos
Luang Namtha, Laos
The road from Vang Vieng to Luang Namtha is long, windy, full of potholes and very slow going. So we stayed overnight in Luang Prabang even though we’d be returning there a few […]
Vang Vieng, Laos
We left Vientiane and headed for Vang Vieng – a town renowned for it’s right-of-passage tubing down the Nam Song River. The tubing route was once lined with many bars, platforms, zip lines […]
Vientiane, Laos
We can see a pattern forming after traveling Laos for a while. Compared to many other places in South East Asia, it’s clean, laid back, uncrowded and with fewer young drunken tourists […]
Tha Khek and The Loop
From Pakse we headed to Tha Khek to do “The Loop”. This is a 400km road trip through rural areas and villages in southern Laos, undertaken on a hired motorbike. The Loop […]
Pakse, Laos
Pakse is a town in southern Laos which serves mostly as a gateway hub for travelers. There’s some temples, waterfalls and small villages to explore in the region. We saw none of […]
Don Det, 4000 Islands, Laos
Our first stop in Laos was Don Det, an island in the Mekong River, part of the 4000 islands group, just across the border from Cambodia. We thought we had seen the […]
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