Phonepaseuth Guest House Vientiane

... am Mekong, um nun doch noch die letzte Etappe nach Vientiane per Boot zurückzulegen, hmm… das nächste Boot fährt in drei Tagen. Gut kein Problem und wir hatten eine fantastische Zeit mit Baden und Kinderspielen in dem kleinen Städchen am Mekong.

Vientiane, wohl eine der kleinsten Hauptstädte der Welt (knapp 200.000 Einwohner), gefiel mir. Lohnte sich noch einmal wiederzukommen. Denn Phonsavan wollte besucht werden. Die Ebene der Tonkrüge. Große Megalithen stehen dort ...

... smelled like creamsicles. Needless to say, I was thrilled.

After dropping our things off in the room, we walked about a block to go to a bicycle rental shop. We rented four bikes - pretty banged-up one-speeds with baskets - and headed off to tour the city. Sadly, the rental shop didn't rent helmets but I figured going helmetless for a day wouldn't kill me (I hoped). Riding around on bikes through Vientiane was an adventure because we were riding on ...

On ne voulais pas passer trop de temps a Vang Vieng comme vous l'aviez compris, on est donc parti le matin, pour la capitale Vientiane, mais avec 2 heures de kayak en chemin avec Barbecue Lao improvise au bord de la riviere par nos guide.

C'etait sympa de couper le trajet avec une activite a mi chemin, meme si le trajet n'etait ...

... Thailand, and drank some cool Beer Laos like the best of them.

Before heading further north, we decided that some more trekking was in order, in keeping with our desire to take advantage of Laos' great and largely untouched outdoors. We hooked up with a group by the name of Green Discovery, who seemed to have fairly decent ideas on keeping Laos as untouched as possible, and we (along with a couple of moody German sisters, a very moody French Canadian, a ...

... fountain - it wasn't bad, but better was the people watching.

On Wednesday we chartered a tuk-tuk out to Buddha Park (I want my dad to note that we bartered the tuk tuk man down 90,000 Kip from his original offer, we're getting better at it!). Buddha park is a totally bizarre collection of hindu and buddha statues in a small park 24km out of town. We really didn't know what to make of it, it was very odd, but a nice place for a picnic and we got ...

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Dân Luangprabang với dân Viêng Chăn đôi khi không hiểu nhau, và cũng sinh ra nhiều chuyện cười do giọng nói khác nhau. Thí dụ, người Luangprabang hỏi đi đâu là pay xay, thì người Viêng Chăn lại nói là: pay xơơy. Người Luang tự nhận mình tiếng nói mạnh mẽ hơn, còn ngư ...

Before we arrived to the border crossing we stopped at a shop to get me a visa. I had my picture taken and had to fill out some paperwork. We drive 1 block up the road to the border crossing. I pay US $31 to cross and my Thai friends pay nothing and just show their Thai ID card. We crossed the First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge on a bus to Laos. I don't know exactly if ...