Laos
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Friday, 3 Oct 2008 | Views [404]
September 26th - 28th Don Det is part of the 4000 Islands in southern Laos, a region so-called because many islands and sand banks spring out of the Mekong, the numbers varying depending on the rainfall. We arrived there after a two and a half hour ... Read more >
Tuesday, 30 Sep 2008 | Views [590]
September 19th - 20th A seven hour bus journey (everywhere in Laos seems to be about seven or eight hours by bus) took us from the picturesque town of Luan Probang to the remote, one-street town of Phonsavan. I quote the Lonely Planet Guide ... Read more >
Monday, 29 Sep 2008 | Views [398]
September 21st - 23rd The night bus from Phonsaven to Vientiane turned out to be pretty torturous. From the moment we got on to the moment we got off, ten hours later, we had to listen to karaoke tunes which must have been played at top volume. The ... Read more >
Wednesday, 24 Sep 2008 | Views [579]
September 19th - 20th A seven hour bus journey (everywhere in Laos seems to be about seven or eight hours by bus) took us from the picturesque town of Luan Probang to the remote, one-street town of Phonsavan. I quote the Lonely Planet Guide on this ... Read more >
Monday, 22 Sep 2008 | Views [299]
September 15th - 19th After an 8 hour bus journey from Vang Vieng, it was delightful to arrive in pretty Luang Probang: a town built at the confluence of the Mekong River and the Nam Khan, where French colonial buldings stand next to tin-roofed wooden ... Read more >
Thursday, 18 Sep 2008 | Views [547]
September 12th -14th Vang Vieng lies about four hours north by bus from Vientiane and is the backpacking destination in Laos for "river tubing". We had met a number of bruised travellers before arriving who had told us about the craze that ... Read more >
Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 | Views [558]
September 10th-11th I was very curious to see what was awaiting us in Laos: the country which has been most heavily bombed, on a per capita basis, in the history of warfare (according to the Lonely Planet, the USA had, by 1973, been dropping an average ... Read more >
Thursday, 11 Sep 2008 | Views [508]
Tuesday Sept. 9th - Wednesday Sept. 10th The much dreaded journey, crossing from Vietnam into Laos, turned out to be better than we had imagined. That's not to say the beginning of the journey did much for calming our fears. We were collected from ... Read more >
