Vila Guest House Luang Namtha

One of the things I’ve noticed most in Lao is that Lao is much poorer than China. When we crossed the border there was a huge difference. The Chinese half of the border is huge, made out of stainless steel and very fancy. The Lao half is a concrete building without windows. After we crossed the border we took the bus to Luang Namtha. From Luang Namtha we were going to do some trekking. We chose the two day trek through some of the ...

After spending three days playing with elephants, our next stop was Luang Namtha in the north of Laos, only 50km or so away from the border with China.<br><br>After an eventful 9 hour journey from Luang Prabang we arrived in Luang Namtha. We had travelled by minibus and spent the entire time being thrown from side to side and up and down on the terrible roads - we felt like we had spent the entire day in a tumble drier! The only relief came when ...

Alright there folks,<br> <br>Hope you are all well. We are in Northern Laos at the minute in a wee town called Luang Nam Tha. We did another days tubing in Vang Vieng which was class again. We considered doing it a third day but on the morning we were just beaten, bruised and hanging so we had a nice mong out day and cycled to a wee park by the river that had these lovely natural pools. Just soaked in them for a while doing a bit of nature ...

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... Bcp d&lt;arbres a fruit aussi (mangue, pomelo et pleins d&lt;autres). Et des insectes et des oiseaux tellements bruyants que ca devient assourdissant ! <br><br>Nouvelle traversee de la Nam ha en barque sommaire (conduite par un garcon de 7 ans, tout au plus.... securisant pas mal !), une heure de boite de camion et, retour au village de luang nam tha !<br><br>Demain: .... non, cette fois-ci, je ne vais plus vers le nord mais vis plutot retourner vers le sud a Way ...

... it made our nine hour journey very stuffy. We started off leaving the bus terminal and heading north to Luang Nam Tha. I had two seats to myself until travel sat next to me. My window didn&#8217;t have a handle to close it, so I manually closed it as best as I could. The rain was still coming in through holes where the old handle bar use to be. So I moved to the seat in front where there was a young local girl. She must have been ...

Luang Nam Tha was a small town which was slowly being overrun my Chinese immigrants much to the dislike of the locals. Whilst in Luang Nam Tha we (Eliron &amp; I) did a day trek up a river, I fell off a log and got soaked, somehow my camera survived. Going for an independent trek in the jungle proved difficult as the surrounding jungle was all national park and you were obliged to take a guide. We hired a ...

We woke up before our 7:30 alarm call, covered in bites, not from the mosquito from which were were protected, but from the ants &amp; whatever else must have been kept INSIDE the mosquito nets! Oh well... <br><br>We stretched our legs, used the clean(er) toilets - now THAT must have been a fun job to do in pitch black the night before - and put our heavy walking boots back on. <br ...

We were up early today ready for the first day of our 2 day trek up in the mountains. <br><br>Neither of us slept brilliantly, mainly due to the bloody noisy insects outside the guest house which sounded like a security alarm going off?! It was the weirdest noise, and SO loud, I had my pillow on my head and it was still absolutely unbearable ...

Before I forget, "Laos" is pronounced with a silent "s", so it sounds like the word "loud" without the "d". You always hear people pronounce the "s", but that's the wrong pronounciation. <br><br>Ok, lesson over... today we were up at 7:30 to get to the only bank in town (there's no ATM here) to change some US $ travellers cheques into Laos "Kip", which has to be the ...