Houay Xai, Lao Peoples Dem Rep Travel Blogs

Slow boat from Luang Prabang to Houay Xai
May 31, 2007 (30 photos)

... Luang Prabang: 1:  Take a bus from Luang Prabang to Luang Nam Tha (10 hours) and then bus from Luang Nam Tha to Houay Xai ( 10 hours ).  We were told that the times were an estimate and that if it rained the travel time could extend to ...

Entry to Laos
Feb 18, 2007

The border crossing consists of a short ferry across the Mekong to Huay Xai, where the police stamp your passport, then a short ride to the slow boat. We had to wait for 2 hours for it to fill and set off. There were 2 boats, so I was careful to avoid the ...

Gibbons!!
Feb 16, 2008 (7 photos)

... arrived back at the pickup place tired, dirty and sweaty and really rather pleased with ourselves about midmorning. We got back to Houay Xai at about 2:00pm and took the boat across the river to Thailand and are staying tonight in Chiang Khong. Tomorrow ...

Houay xai
Aug 20, 2008

Crossed the Mekong river and the border to Laos, got a visa for $35 US dollars, and a quick tuk tuk ride to the slow boat. The slow boat was the most uncomfortable boat. I don't think there was anywhere to sit that was even the least bit comfortable BUT ...

Readjusting
May 2, 2008 (2 photos)

... Chiang Khong is a typical, developed Thai town with fully stocked shops, ATM's etc. etc. (albeit along a single street), Houay Xai is incredibly basic- essentially just a string of guesthouses, a single currency exchange office and one or two& ...

Border Town
Feb 12, 2008 (2 photos)

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Laos here I come
Jan 23, 2008

Arriving in Laos and catching the slow boat to Luang Prabang.

End of our Mekong Journey
Dec 17, 2007 (8 photos)

... got on safely and it was much the same as the previous day for 9 hours until we reached the boarder town of Houay Xai. Houay Xai is nothing particularly special. It gets most of its trade because Thai customs on the opposite side of the Mekong closes ...

More river time
Mar 22, 2007

... ...that place just made me wish I was home. Tonight I'm staying at a nice guesthouse in the Laos border town of Houay Xai and tomorrow I'm going to cross back into Thailand! Civilization again! Yay! I don't know why I'm even bothering with ...

Crash :(
Nov 3, 2005

... for hernede lukker graenserne kl 18:00 praecis... Vi kommer da ogsaa forsent til graensen, saa nu sidder jeg fast for natten i Houay Xai. Hotellet har heldigvis taget alt mit toej til vask, saa haaber bare at alt det andet ikke har taget for meget skade ...

Houay Xai (Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?)
Jun 27, 2008

... nbsp; We finally found one not bad for 70,000 kip a night for 2 people and a fan. There really isn't much to say about Houay Xai.  I was personally bored because there was nothing to do; not even a coffee shop to hang out in.  We did find a great ...

Houay Xai, Laos
Jan 28, 2008

Estimated location b/c the map function couldn't find it.

In Search of the Elusive Gibbon Monkeys.
Aug 2, 2007 (9 photos)

... the starting village, all weary and a bit smelly with blisters cuts and scrapes and piled back into the trucks to go back to Houay Xai for a well deserved beer. Later that night we all had dinner together and a few drinks. This ended up being quite a ...