Lao National History Museum Vientiane

We're in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. We had high expectations about the city after reading loads about it, but we've been a bit disappointed. First, I was sick for 2 days so it didn't make it very enjoyable. We arrived on Saturday and had a look around, went to the National History Museum. I started to feel really hot and sick there so we kind …

The Capital of Laos is located on the banks of the Mekong River, the river makes up the border to Thailand & is something of a fearful thing for the locals of the capital, especially for those that live close to its massive banks. The fear of flooding is shown by the large scale levy bank that is being built to protect the city, it looks …

The night before leaving Don Dhet, we grabbed tickets for a trip to Vientiane, the Lao capital. After shopping around a bit for the best price, we ended up finding the best deal at our own guesthouse, which was quite convenient. The trip included a boat to the mainland, a shuttle bus 2 hours to Pakse and then a sleeper bus to Vientiane overnight. …

Took an overnight train from Bangkok to Nong Khai on the border with Laos. I saw some evidence of the floods but again, there was just not as much as the pictures on the news. From Nong Khai we get stamped out of Thailand and cross the friendship bridge in another train that crosses the Mekong River. At the other side we fill our forms in for entry …

Llegamos a la capital de Laos y nos llevamos una grata sorpresa, la ciudad estaba limpia, con bonitos restoranes, sin congestión, poco ruido, que alivio.

El bus que tomamos, que era un bus con "cama doble" finalmente nos resultó fatal, ya que no pude dormir considerando el espacio…claro, están hecho para la gente de acá y los …

The night bus from Thakek to Vientiane, though a local bus as well, was incredibly fast, and at 5 am the next morning, we reached the Vientiane bus station. The trip took just 6 hours. Early in the morning it was, and we had little choice but to take a tuk tuk (50,000K shared amongst us three) to get us to the city centre, some 13km away from town …

Ah, one of my final greetings, friends!

My TravelPod Blog is nearly over -- as I left Vietnam and headed to LAOS, final days of my TransPacific (prior to Japan in Mid April). I am most excited...for my final country LAOS, a country newly opened up to tourism. Tourism s now the #1 source of income -- making huge changes for the local people …

Hello again.

So from Tha Khaek we made our way by bus to the capital of Laos, Vientiane.

Immediately we were struck by the contrast between this busy metropolis compared to the rural villages where we had been to during our motorbike loop.

A similarity on our late arrival, however, was our stubborness with tuk tuk …

Despite the inconveniences of the prior day, the overnight stay in Hanoi wasn't too bad. Unfortunately, due to the location of the hotel and fact we had to be at the airport by 8am, I didn't have a chance to properly explore. Hopefully I'll get to return to Vietnam in the future. Since it was August, the weather was extremely humid. I wasn't even …

... that we couldn't even find on the map, drink Beer Lao (10,000 kip/80p for a big bottle) and visit the Lao National History Museum (admission 10,000 kip/80p). We also visit COPE, which is an organisation set up initially to help victims who come ...

... a good view of the city down to the palace and all around. After lunch it was museum time!  This was the Lao National History museum, taking us on a journey from pre history all the way through to the present, through the French colonial times ...

... My final sight for the day was also the best and conveniently right next door to my hotel. The Lao National History Museum, like so many buildings in Vientiane, is located inside a colonial French mansion built in 1925. The museum was well organized and ...

... Vientiane has to offer. Our first full day Gino was a responsible tourist and, with his friend Marcus, visited the Lao National History Museum. I didn't feel like learning much that day and passed on the museum. Instead, I took a nice walk around ...

... , Dave and Tricia again. Yup, Laos really isn't that big. It was an entertaining afternoon at the Lao National History Museum, where all the photographs and weapons have captions laden with Communist rhetoric - American Imeprialists, Bad Social Element, ...

... their team, too. If you're reading this, Walter Smith, I think maybe even we could give them a game. Maybe. Visited the Lao National History museum which was interesting as I wasn't too aware of Lao as a country before nor it's history. There were the ...

... , before heading out to allow her to rest. And to sit down in peace, if you know what I mean... I am off to the Lao National History Museum. Formerly the Lao Revolution Museum, the locals decided to tone down on the Communistic hoo-hah and make it more ...

... , one I liked was Patuxai (Victory Arch) which mimics the Arc de Triomphe (sp?) in Paris. Today we visited the Lao National History Museum, and Christina and I left with our tail between our legs. Every exhibit or photo that related America to Laos ...

... looked better from a distance than close up as there isn’t much inside. We caught another tuk tuk to the Lao National History Museum where Mary was bored out of her brains and so hot and bothered and Troy walked around much more interested as Mary ...

... de Triomphe look-a- like Patuxai, a monument to commemorate Lao who died in the pre-revolutionary wars; and then the Lao National History Museum, where very one-sided displays concerning the struggle for independence and the secret war waged by the US ...