Phonsavan Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

After Luang Prabang we headed for the town of Phonsavan which was a days bus journey away. It was a nice enough journey tough as we made our way east in Laos crossing amongst the jungly hills and dramatic scenery. Phonsavan is on a plain and is actually quite cool, so it was really nice to arrive there and felt great to have to put on a jumper a...

Phonsavan is famous for the plain of Jars which is a large area extending over Phonsavan from the southwest to the northeast where huge jars of unknown origin are scattered about in over a dozen groupings. The jars are made from solid stone, most from sandstone and a few from granite.

There is an untold history to Phonsavan that many peo...

On the way south toViang Vieng and Vientianne there is a detour to a place called Phonsavon. The road takes you across the moutain tops to by some pretty remote tribes. I would have pictures but I was too busy trying not to be sick after dring too much on my birthday the night before. OOPS! The town of Phonsavon is pretty simple. Just people an...

Greetings from the frozen north!! We had a decent enough bus ride from Vientiane (only 9 hours) and only saw one head on road collision on the way. We arrived to Phonsavan and rather quickly noticed that our flip flops and t-shirts were perhaps NOT the appropriate clothing for this town!! We went for a lovely Indian meal for dinner, and then hea...

We left Luang Prabang on the local bus. I was praying that other tourists would get on too, so we weren't the only suicidal idoiots going to Phonsavan by local bus. It was a fine until we stopped to pick up this guy with a massive gun! I'm talking a gun so big, he probably needed a buffalo to carry it round. Buffalo is very tasty by the way, yum...

June 10, 2007 Phonsavan, Laos From Luang Prabang we took the bus to Phonsavan to see the Plain of Jars. The bus cost 240,000 kip for both of us for the 10 hour ride. Our hotel in Phonsavan costs $10/night. Phonsavan is about 1500 meters above sea level and at about 3 AM we turn off the ceiling fan because it is too chilly. If you don't remember ...

Another long, but not too bad bus ride - as we were coming up into the mountains it got cooler - got me to the city Phonsavan where the mysterious Plain of Jars is located. Archaeologists believe that the jars were used 1,500-2,000 years ago, by an ancient Mon-Khmer race whose culture is now totally unknown. The jars may have been used as funera...

Des demarches administratives etant en route, je peux me dirgier vers Phonsavan pour decourvir la plaine des jarres et les restes laisses par la guerre secrete des USA au Laos. N etant pas sur un jour de revenir au Laos, je me suis decide a aller la bas et ai meme convaicu mon voisin de cabane, Alpha, a en faire de meme. En route, dans le bus, o...

After escaping from Vang Vieng, I headed east to the small town of Phonsavan. It was a rough trip. Because the bus was so packed (with Lao people, there were only three other tourists) I spent the entire seven hour bus ride sitting on a plastic stool in the aisle. In addition, for the first six hours, we wound up and down and around countless mo...

So the art exhibit at the Royal Palace Museum inspired us to deviate from our stone-cold itinerary, which we've been quite faithful to up until now, in order to strike out eastward (through the bandits) to Phonsavan. The contrast between the western and eastern landscape is stark. The land becomes very flat and almost barren which is very differ...