Morning Market Vientiane

We arrived in Vientiane the capital of laos about midday after a slow minibus trip from Vang Vieng, but at least the journey was unevenful this time. We got to our hostel which was a bit run down but cheap and central and easy to find this time so we were happy.
We had a look around the town but because it was raining we spent an aftenoon of …

... usually makes with ground pork and learned from friends during a snowboarding trip to Fernie, B.C.  We wandered over to the morning market in the late afternoon for t-shirt shopping.  Beerlao is now the beverage of choice. Our next task was to ...

... similar, but has more buddhist ornamental things added to it (guess you can picture if perfectly from that description) Went to the morning market (which is open all day), the very same market the Foreign office is nervous of, due to some bombings a ...

... I had nothing better to do all day. Walked miles to far and had to double back. We knew it was somewhere near the morning market so when we arrived at a market we assumed we were nearby. Apparently this was the afternoon market, more like the dirt ...

... an extra day to suck back BeerLao with Huib for a second sampling of the Rocket Festival. Maybe it was the strange meat from the Morning Market, or perhaps the smelly Durian fruit we attempted to eat. The source of the pain wasn't known, but my tight, ...

... to write where, gave them the 30 dollars they asked for, come back later)and finding a place to stay. Went to the Talat Sao (Morning Market) as its right next to the visa office. Got hot and bothered - its getting warmer the further south I go. After ...

... snake, which moved quickly away. According to the Lao tradition, seing a snake brings good luck, seing a deer brings bad luck. The morning market was still open when we got back, and then we of course had to shop for silver (Riikka) and DVDs (guess ...

If Laos could do 'raucous', this was as close as it got. Spewed out of the bus into the busy morning market, we were set upon by tuktuk drivers amidst a backdrop of shouting hawkers, guffawing groups of bus drivers, and passers-by striding purposefully ...

... then wait for the rain to ease before heading to our local for some food.  Sunday and time for us to hit the morning market and this was not what we thought it would be, literally stall after stall full to the brim with everything and anything they ...

... muy grande que alberga un pelo de buddha (eso dicen) algun que otro templo y punto de paso para muchos viajantes. Tambien tiene un morning market, pero a mi esto de los mecados no me va mucho asi que.... En la calle se observa el ambiente que hacia dias ...

... collection of statues I have seen!  The others will be gutted to have missed them! On the way back I jumped off at the morning market again and this time it was full of stalls and lots of goodies. And no, I was very good, only one ...