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Pakbeng - Day 83
May 15, 2008
(5 photos)
"Bring on the mighty Mekong! The Mekong river is one of the longest in the world, its over 4000km long. I'm going to be travelling on 280km of the river in the next 2 days on a dies ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
christosp
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Slow Boat on the Mekong
Jan 11, 2007
(29 photos)
"We had crossed over to Huay Xai a day early so we would have time to explore the town before taking the slow boat to the former capital of Luang Prabang. The exploration took ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
dane
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Cruising Down the Mekong River
Apr 8, 2008
(29 photos)
"Sad to leave Thailand we crossed the Mekong River by longtail boat into Laos. Was quite the experience getting the visa as you queued up multiple times to get a selection of stamps ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
ruairioc
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Day 16 - The Heart of Darkness
Jan 25, 2008
"Woke up early as I wasn't sure of the schedule and I had no alarm clock. Anyways, the tour operator was on Thai time. After breakfast, they took us down to the ferries. I hesitate ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
1061kun
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Slow and Fast boats
May 5, 2006
(7 photos)
"Pakbeng, May 5 Miles travelled: 71467 Over the past 2 days we travelled down the Mekong River. This river is mainly known for its delta, where it empties into the South China Sea, ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
thechans
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Pakbeng
Feb 4, 2007
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"Since the trip from Huay Xai to Louang Phrabang is a fifteen hour journey, and it's not a good idea to go over rapids on the mekong while it's dark out, we stopped for the night in ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
akre
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Oh Rats!
Mar 13, 2008
"SO, PAk beng, we climb up teh massive beachy, sandy, impossible to climb hill having fought off numerous small children who, for and unreasonable fee, will run up the hill with you ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
lucyrose
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2-day boat trip down the Mekong into Laos
Jul 21, 2008
(53 photos)
"Today starts extra early with a 6:00am pickup from our hotel to head to the Mekong near the Laos border. The ride to the boat is about an hour and a half through gorgeous sce ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
laurenandy
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Mekong Cruise
Oct 25, 2006
(8 photos)
"Apres quelques deboires, on a finalement pu quitter la Thailande pour le Laos. Pour rejoindre Luang Prabang, on a pris l'option bateau lent publique. 2 jours de croisieres sont nec ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
annejulien
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Pak Beng
Apr 3, 2008
(4 photos)
"The electricity in this town turns off around 10 pm until morning. Finally Russel will get to use his damn flashlight which transforms into a 'lantern' that he has been dying to us ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
juliet-russel
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Crossing into Laos - the fun way
Dec 28, 2006
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"The last few days have been hard travelling, but so much fun! I last left you in Chiang Mai at the night markets munching on insects. They were nothing like I expe ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
raniroo
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Little rivertown stop
Nov 15, 2007
"We left Luang Prabang by slow boat. Our journey took us on the Mekong River past beautiful jungles, secluded beaches, and quiet river towns. After our 6 hour ride, our ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
davidandamy
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Laos!
Feb 11, 2007
"10th So, next stop Laos! I love this traveling lark...with no set plans or itinerary, you suddenly find yourself in a country you hadnt even considered visiting before! Woke up aft ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
jonvillis
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I think I found hell
May 29, 2006
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"They say things happen in 3's. Well then my 3rd accident happened the day I left Pai so I thought I would tell you about it. I think it was a sign not to leave the place but anyway ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
lisapeterson0
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Mekong Fahrt
Oct 30, 2008
(21 photos)
"Wir haben die Mekong Fahrt sehr gut ueberstanden. War wirklich sehr interessant und ne wahnsinnig schoene Landschaft. Der Weg zu der Bootsfahrt war leider etwas anstrengender als w ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
tomfroehle
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Mighty Mekong River
Apr 13, 2008
(40 photos)
"After traveling across the Thai-Laos border into the Huay Xai, Laos we got on a slow boat with about 60 people on two boats. Our boat was about 1/2 tourists and 1/2 local people. T ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
stafox
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On the river Mekong
Aug 17, 2006
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"Today we said goodbye to Thailand. We left early from Chiang Khong and took a small fishing boat across the river to Laos immigration. There we completed our paperwork, and then bo ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
j3ssie
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Drug pusher's of Pakbeng
Oct 6, 2006
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"I just have to write about this kip. Anyway this slow boat was to bring us from the Thai Laos border all the way to Luang Prabang in the middle of Laos. But its 8 hours on this wre ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
marcmsm
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Chiang Rai to Pakbeng, Laos
Feb 13, 2007
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"Today we were met my Mr Laing (or Mr Happy as we called him) every second sentence was Mr Aston Sir - I was obviously invisible! We had a two hour transfer to the pier were we woul ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
astons
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Mekong River Journey
Jul 21, 2004
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"We launched off after a long delay on our tiny-seated, no leg room having, yet colorful, high-ceilinged, western toileted, with drinks aboard boat (this all becomes important later ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
trent
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Day 17
Jul 5, 2008
"Day 17: Huay Xai / Pak Beng Got to the port at Huay Xai for about 9.30am and the boat was meant to leave at 10.30am but was an hour late. Seats were like wooden benches with a tiny ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
sbanni
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Gargamel's Racous River Romp
Nov 26, 2005
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"Left Huay Xai this morning around 11am on a slow-boat to Luang Prabang. The plan was to travel about 150 km down the Mekong today, spend the night in Pakbeng, and then continue on ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
mrcase100
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Pakbeng
Aug 14, 2007
"Headed down to the boat ramp today for an 8am departure and for some reason it didn't take off till bloody 9am in the end. Now there are two options for getting up the m ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
traveller_pie
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Day 2 down the Mekong
May 19, 2008
"Pakbeng is a stopover town for travellers going to/from Luang Prabang. Pakbang has a teeny population of 2000 people and is one of the poorest places in thw world. The hotel (which ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
jaime.hartigan
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Scivolando sul Mekong
Aug 2, 2008
(27 photos)
"La mattina della partenza per Luang Prabang scendiamo sul fiume ed arriviamo al molo di Huay Xai: una fila di splendide barche di legno lunghe e strette ci aspettano all'ancora. Pe ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
planetvale
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Two days relaxing on the boat
Oct 7, 2006
(37 photos)
"We crossed the Thai-Lao border this morning. Our passports were taken from us and given back to us on the other side of the border. We caught two relatively small boats, to the oth ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
samira_steve
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Kamu Lodge to Luangsay Lodge
Jul 30, 2008
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"Up early for breakfast as the Dutch family were leaving at 7.30am and we all wanted to say goodbye. Our boat was collecting us at 10am so time for packing and reading on our wooden ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
tony-helen
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A very long boat ride
Feb 24, 2008
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"Although the boat wasn't scheduled to leave until 11am, the Kiwi boys and I decided to arrive around 9:30am to get good seats. The long wooden boat was filled with hard woode ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
laura1
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Navigando il Mekong
Mar 26, 2007
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"On a raft that you can call boat just becouse someone put a roof on it, we were 80 people + 5 stuff , it may contain it I think in total only 60. Fortunately i found a wo ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
1lifeliveit
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Pakbeng
Apr 16, 2008
(27 photos)
"We spent about 8 hours on the boat riding down the Mekong. It was a slow long boat so we had time to read, rest, eat, read some more...we made a stop to have children come aboard t ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
laytonandjana
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Escaping Thai scams & Slow Boat into Laos
Oct 4, 2008
(20 photos)
"Slow Boat to Luang Prabang... Glad to be out of Thailand following incident with van driver purposefully driving as slow as possible & making unnecessary stops so we would miss ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
spracf
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Muang Houn - Pakbeng
Oct 15, 2006
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"53.2 km - 15km/h On se leve tot pour aller visiter Boumphet, le gars qui nous a invite la veille, a 6 km de la. Il vit dans une poatite maison en bambou sur pilotis, traditionnelle ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
virgdav
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River Trip
Dec 31, 2004
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"CLICK ON PHOTOS AT TOP TO ENLARGE! Early start and catch a truck down to the river crossing, go through emigration, catch a long boat and then get to immigration. Change some mone ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
dowler
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Laos - The Land of a Million Elephants
May 2, 2007
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"Welcome to Laos - Southeast Asia's best kept secret. I am going to spend seven days in Laos - and will explorer the Northern Loop - Pak Beng - Pak Ou - Luang Prabang - Vang Vieng - ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
pierrelang
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Pakbeng
Mar 15, 2008
(19 photos)
"You'll be pleased to hear I started the day feeling a thousand times better than the day before. We were up early and the early morning sun over Pakbeng was beautiful. When we got ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
stalee
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2 day slow boat trip
Sep 6, 2008
"I learnt how to do the rubix on this two day trip, thought to myself and smurf by our buddy from the gibbon experience Gareth from Cheltenham. Took hours and hours. The slow boat i ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
themadnecropsy
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Pakbeng, Laos
Jun 1, 2008
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"We got up early to cross the border into Laos, fisrt a taxi to the border and stamped out of Thailand, then a long tailed boat across the Mekong to Laos. We decided to go int ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
paulandnic
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A Slow Boat to Luang Prabang
Sep 29, 2008
"6:30 Kick off for this morning - how can this be a holiday with so many early starts?!? A young chap with an impressive mullet picked us up and drove us the 1 and a half hours alon ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
bones_on_tour
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slow boating in Lao
Jul 24, 2008
"okayi am going to take the opertunity of free internet to finally finally catch up with my blog for which i am FAR too far behind! so slow boating. after staying out till jus ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
allanshaw
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Mekong by slowboat
Jul 15, 2004
(5 photos)
"So here I am in beautiful Laos, with stunning scenery, and sweet, friendly people! In fact, it's contagious, even the travellers are friendlier here in contrast to Thailand, people ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
beck
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Pakbeng- Cruise down the Mekong River
Mar 15, 2006
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"After arriving in the border town of Houyxai we were brought to the immigration office to be stamped into Laos . This took us all off five minutes and then we were brought by tuc-t ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
peteash
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Crossing to Laos and Slowboat
Sep 28, 2008
"Nice day today Started off nice and early, had some breakfast and caught up with some of the guys after a fairly decent night out last night. We got down to the Thai side of ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
bass_ke
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the mighty mekong..
Apr 18, 2008
"slowly drifting down the mighty mekong, a bottle of local whiskey to keep you company.. what more can you ask for.. More to follow.. Next step Luang Prabang.. Photos for the 'Slow ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
jhnhtt
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Pakbeng to Pak Ou, Laos
Jan 16, 2008
"In the early morning we'll walk to the Pakbeng market for a look at the local life prior to boarding the barge at 0830. Along the way we'll stop to visit ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
george-heather
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Pakbeng
Apr 3, 2007
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"Pakbeng: Another adventure followed, as we left Hongsa by truck again to reach the Mekong and take a speed boat to Pakbeng....... It was fast bumpy, with amazing scenery once again ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
hub_isa
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The Slow Boat To Indo China
Nov 3, 2008
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"The desk at the hotel arranged a ride at 9, and we boarded the boat practically first. We chose the car seats that were parallel to the sides of the boat, right up front.&nbs ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
ak-lomo
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Horrible Pak Beng!!
Oct 23, 2008
"Our first day on the slow boat was very pleasant, we had comfy seats and a private boat, so we got to have a snooze and read a book...... But then we had to stop off for the night ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
melglashan
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Pakbeng
Aug 21, 2008
"Stayed here one night. The town is a muddy road that sort of paved next to the river. Had sticky rice with fish curry and found a cat to keep in my lap the whole dinner. I don't kn ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
aversc
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Pit Stop
Jul 17, 2006
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"We arrived in Pakbeng about 5pm, where we would spent the night before resuming the rest of our uncomfortable journey to Luang Prabang. This again was a tiny little village with on ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
leithandjim
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Change of plans
Mar 20, 2007
"There's been a change of plans...I decided against going to Nong Khiaw due to the Laos version of Montezuma's Revenge/Delhi Belly, what ever unpleasant name you want to give it. An ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
grapestomper
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Day 6 : Cross-Border Nightmare
Jun 19, 2008
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"19th June 2008 Everything was perfect in LP EXCEPT that I (Xuanyi) got really stressed and worked up yesterday over the terrible "Nagi of Mekong" incident. All travel ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
xuanargi
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Same Same but Different
Apr 12, 2008
(7 photos)
"I flew back in to Bangkok and spent a total of about 5 hours there before I caught a bus north again to Chiang Mai. My mission was to get to Luang Prabang in Laos before the Lao Ne ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
1life2live
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Pakbeng
Nov 13, 2005
(6 photos)
"Pakbeng Arrived on 13 Nov, crossed border to Huay Xai and travelled on boat all day Left on 14 Nov, carried on down the Mekong to Luang Phabang Stayed at some dodgy guesthouse with ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
nicolaeve
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Pakbeng
Jun 1, 2007
(7 photos)
"Day 20: Pakbeng - Laos We booked tickets for the slowboat to Pakbeng, so we get up early to get on the boat. The journey takes about 10 hours with no stops, but the day passes pre ..."
A travel blog entry from Pakbeng by
rapturina
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