Morning Market Vientiane

... 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 market ...

... Images of Pha That Luang and other Wats around it We went through two markets in Vientiane as well. The first one is called the morning market. It goes on everyday and has permanent vendors. There are items of all kinds for sale. Some ...

... 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, bloated ...

... 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 I ...

... 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 who ...

... 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 que ...

... nice change.  We ran into our friends from the Phonsavan tour and enjoyed hanging out with them again.  There was a cool morning market and some cute boutiques.  We had to make a few embassy runs to get ready for our trip to Vietnam.& ...

... , the war and finally just loads of pictures including pictures of coke bottles and electric fans. After that we went to the Morning market (which is actually open all day) and then walked to the Laos version of the Arc de Triomphe from which there ...

... 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 purchase!!!& ...

... tuk tuk!!  We visited the natural history museam (very random but slightly more imformative than most we've seen so far), the morning market (where you could buy anything from fruit to a liquidiser or a hair cut to all the things you'd need to set ...

... and shared food with the local women who were preparing the funeral... A very special occasion. We visited other markets... the morning market was a 'real' experience. They had a mole there that you could buy and release on the holy mountain for good ...

... Sarah tried several times as did I with wild hand gestures, we got there in the end though.  Next we wandered around the morning market which went on all day ;-) before walking up to and climbing Laos version of the Arc D'Triomphe, the view was very ...

... is very quiet and relaxing here. we've not done much here - mostly just a lot of wandering around the talat sao (the morning market that actually goes on until late afternoon) and this other nearby market. and eating. and drinking fruit shakes. as we head ...

... bit of admin in the morning then went for lunch at the restaurant we ate at the previous night. After a downpour we headed to the morning market for an hour. After we spent time chilling out in our room, as there isn't much to do in town, most things are ...

... soul. We started off by taking a local bus out to Buddha Park. Bus #14 from the bus station behind Talat Sao (the morning market), from stand #1 (furthest from the market), runs every 20 minutes, costs 4000kip each. Buddha Park (Xieng Khuan) is a small ...

... we could pack all of the attractions in.  To do this we rented bikes from the guest house and visited the Talat Sao morning market. From there we thought we were heading to the Victory Monument but Mark had taken us on the wrong road so we stopped ...

... called Mahkpet which helps street children. The food was seriously delicious. Afterwards we went to the big market here in Vientiane, the morning market, to go look for laws to buy. It was the most unusual experience because you can literally buy laws at ...

... good, and the first temple in a while that I haven't just wanted to get out of!  After that we wandered the morning market, but those kind of things are generally the same everywhere.  So that is all the touristy stuff there is to do here ...

... very impressed with Lao people as a whole. They are mostly very friendly and willing to help. Carmen and I later checked out the morning market and I was very excited to find the barbeque cooking dish for sale like we had used in Vang Vieng. I picked that ...