Resort Tham None Vang Vieng Vientiane
Ban Houai Xa Ngao, Route 13 North Vientiane, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
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Shout Out #14
10 minutes across the border, our bus let us off at a breakfast spot. Laos was already unlike anywhere I've been. The recent addition of satellite dishes to mud, bamboo, and wood huts struck me right away. A month later, the dishes meant quite a bit more. We couldn't leave until the driver was finished with whatever mechanic work he'd …
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3 Nights Too Long in the Capital.....
... a bit longer than 3 hours though when 30km from Vientiane, the minibus got a puncture. The locals seemed to find it amusing seeing 12 or so westerners stranded on the side of the main road and a few were driving past taking photos. After about half hour the wheel was changed and we were back on the move.
The driver dropped everyone off at the same place which was a little street on the edge of town and as we didn't get time to book any accommodation ...
Busted Flat in Vang Vieng
... 9PM at a stretch of stalls that sold dried fish exclusively. Some of the passengers were game, but not us.
Midnight in Vientiane
We rolled into the bus station in Vientiane at 11:30PM. It had taken us 15 hours to cover less than 200 miles. That means we averaged just over 12 miles per hour. Sander goes faster than that on his bicycle!
Two songthew taxis stood in the otherwise empty bus lot. They wanted an outrageous ...
Laos' Capital Village
... our picnic breakfast just to make sure that we were up! an hour later we were at the low cost terminal LCCT which was heaving even at that time. The flight was 2 1/2 hrs.and we arrived to much cooler weather but still warm without the humidity. We are staying at the Hotel Khamvongsa a family run traditionally decorated hotel We had a walk around town and then caught the VERY local No 14 bus to the Budha Park, a bargain 50p each way for an hours ...
Last Day in Laos
... on Laos during the war making it the most bombed country in the world. 30% of the bombs did not detonate however, and thousands of people have been injured since by accidentally triggering unexploded ordinance - UXO. Kids think they are toys and try to play with them, farmers trying to grow crops accidentally hit them under layers of soil, people building fires accidentally build on top of them, and so on. The center is designed to rehabilitate ...
