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Muang Khua Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Muang Khua, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Goodbye Vietnam, Hello Laos!
This is a top pick! ... Surrounding on all sides are massive Karst mountains thick with trees. Its a pretty incredible first stop in Laos. This is Muang Khua. We take a stick-thin motor boat across the river to reach the village and head straight to the nearest guesthouse ...
Cliffs and Rivers: Nuang Kiow and Muang Noi Neua
While aimlessly meandering through town on Muang Kiow, we met some people with a plan to go upstream. We decided to join them, not knowing that we were meeting a friend who we would travel with for the next couple weeks. Muang Noi Neua (hard to spell, ...
Éco-randonnée
... New York. Thrilled with our trek but pretty exhausted we took the bus to the beautiful mountain valley towns of Nong Khiew and Muang Khua to cool our heels for a few days. Lazing by the river, checking out caves, indulging in herbal saunas and throwing ...
Transit: Luang Nam Tha to Nong Khiaw
... TV there.. then Sab and I grabbed a Checkers Game that was left in a corner of the bus station (the pieces were actual Beer Lao cups), we kneeled and started playing... only a minute after starting the game, many Lao were all gathering aroung us... it was ...
Nong Khiaw Muan Ngoi
Hi! I had a delightful journey upriver (the Nam Ou) from Louang Prabang to Nong Khiaw. It was technically supposed to be 6 hours long, but I did mention in my last update (I think) that parts of the route I kayaked through were so shallow that I doubted ...
Muang Noi Neua
V najini zelji spoznati pravi Laos sva se podala iz Nong Khiawa po reki Nam Ou navzgor v vasico Muang Ngoi Neua. Vasico je mogoce doseci le z reke in je priljubljena destinacija popotnikov za izlete v neokrnjeno naravo ter okoliske vasice, ki jih turizem ...
In paradise
One hour boat ride upriver we arrived to the best kept secret in the world: Muang Ngoi Neua, a little piece of utopia. The village is by the river Nam Ou, which cuts through amazing tall jungle-covered mountains. There are no motor vehicles, no roads, as ...
Beginnt das echte "Abenteuer" erst jetzt?
... investiert gewesen :-). After all, sind wir rund 2.5 h danach - inkl. Kurzem und teurem Mittagsstop - an unserem Tagesziel Muang Khoa angelangt. Wer hätt's gedacht!? Geschafft. Ein sehr, sehr einfaches Zimmer am Fluss wird uns die fehlende Nacht ...
Ruhetag nach etwas unruhiger Nacht...
... aus. Amon bekommt früh seinen Schlaf. Wenn alles planmässig klappt, werden wir morgen um 09.00h ein Boot nach Muang Ngoi Kao nehmen, was auf halbem Weg nach Süden (Luang Prabang) liegt. Dort soll einfaches Trekking auf eigene Faust ...
UFOs and scorpion encounters
... them, play in them, eat from them and earn a wage from them. It was really great to see. So different from how we live. Muang Ngoi is even smaller than Nong Khiaw but the scenery is much better. There's just one dusty path running up from the river bank. ...
a little bit of tranquility
after our two bus's from luang namtha we arrived in muang khoa with Bert, The Belgun and Miles, the Aussie and were happy to be taken to a river side hostel by Bert. It turned out to be brilliant, amazing views again of the mekong and lots of people ...
Stormy weather
... others restless, but after all the travelling recently I was happy to have a enforced day of relaxing. And what a relaxing place Muang Ngoi is - its so cut off there are no motor vehicles, no mobile reception, no mains electricity and no internet, hence ...
Over The River and Through the Forest
hey everyone....Sonia here. I'm busy trying to update our blog today!! :) Sorry we are so far behind..... OK so this entry shows some pics from our 18 mile hike out to two small villages in Northern Laos. Amazing scenery. My heart ...
Jour 11
Debout 7H encore, c'est pas facile tout les jours les vacances, direction l'embarquadère pour prendre le bateau qui descend vers Muang Ngoi, le village pour lequel nous faisons tout ce détour. Nous retrouvons notre Belge qui nous a proposé le bateau ...
Stuck in Muang Khua...
... on as he got there too late to score a proper seat. I'm pretty sure the avian flu threat has passed... Stayed at Namou guesthouse in Muang Khua which is a really nice location with views over the Nam Ou river and close to the boat ramp you have to use to ...
Luang Nam Tha
We made it to Luang Nam Tha, categorised as a City... well, let's call it town anyways! At least it had internet connection, so I'm not gonna complain! After visiting several times the only two places where we could contract trekkings up in the north of ...
Worlds Apart
... on the road, we had to cross 4 streams by going thru the water, they are in the process of building bridges. About 20km from Muang Khua traffic had to stop as there was a backhoe digging in the road and filling up a dump truck, then the truck would drive ...
Laid-Back Laos
... and awe perspective, that the previous couple of hours had been a tease. We would spend a quick night in the town Muang Ngoi, where the backpacker climate has taken over, most people coming up from the ancient capitol of Luang Prabang. We ...
Into Laos
... refuse to grant him a permit until they by the Minister in charge a Land Cruiser which obviously the WWF refuse to do. Muang Khua where I ended up was a nice little village; a bit like the real Laos as not many tourists make it this far. As ...
Petrol Run to Udomxai and meeting up with old mate
... if they’d bring out the lynch mob for destroying someone ways of means. Cashed up and loving the road I made great time back to Muang Khua and spent the rest of the day lounging at a river side bar with old mate. There’s not a whole lot to ...
Crossing the Tay Trang Border into Laos
... the road with Aussie Craig, however we did get to see some amazing scenery. Eventually we arrived at this small village called Muang Khua (which was set in a valley, surrounded by mountains with a river running through it so it was pretty idyllic ...
Border Crossing Laos to Vietnam
... on the bus, including about 100 ducklings crammed into two cardboard boxes! Hot and bothered we set off but broke down about 30km from Muang Khua, so stood around helpless as the driver tried to fix the bus. After an hour we set off again, but due to the ...
Lao-Lao and Mama Tjuum's bungalows
... with our bamboo fishing rods and earth worms. We braaied the fish for lunch with some sticky rice. The local custom is to drink Lao-lao a local spirit before eating the river fish - after a whole bottle between the 4 of us (this stuff is like witblitz} ...
Muang Ngoi: No Better Place to Loose a Day!
... the sun go behind the adjacent mountain, giving each of them a fiery red outline as the sky turned deeper and darker blue. Muang Ngoi is like a little oasis for backpackers. It is in an idyllic location visually and it is inaccessible other than by ...
Rest after the bus ride
Met a whole bunch of travellers on the bus. We stayed together and took a boat downstream. ...
Phongsali, leeches haven, hill tribes' hide away
Fancy some Natinal Geographic photo shoot of tribal people in full regalia ? Feel like dog stew for diner ? Ever dreamt to spot leeches in their natural environment ? Phonsgali is FOR YOU ! A hell of a bus ride to get there (2 days from Luang ...