Vientiane ist eine winzige Hauptstadt... ziemlich ruhig und ich finde 2 Tage reichen voellig um die Hauptsehenswuerdigkeiten anzuschauen... Das haben wir auch so gemacht. Am 26. Mai haben wir uns das Vat Sisaket angeschaut, ein schoenes altes Vat (hab den Fuehrer nicht dabei, drum gibts keine weiteren Infos) :-) und dann haben wir noch das Ho Ph...

Soo, we arrived in Laos on the 17th with a surprisingly easy border crossing across the Friendship Bridge and eventually arrived at our guesthouse around lunchtime. We didn't do much for the rest of the day apart from go to a really nice French restaurant, 'Le Cote de Azur', for tea. There are lots of French businesses in Vientiane which feels v...

So Laos capital city and not all that interesting i have to say. a few things worth mentioning 1. we slept in the comfiest beds EVER for $5. 2. excellant sculpture park of buddhist and hindu statues. we went from heaven to hell via earth. It was wierd, we have hit a big western town and we were a bit dazzled by all the bright lights, people and ...

Tt le monde critique Vientiane ...et bien nous on a aime notre escale... une journee de ballade a velo dans la ville, ...de la balle...le grand stupa qui scintille ... apero sur les quais, BBQ de boeuf dans un joli resto (histoire que fab garde la forme)...bref gonfles a bloc pr notre depart demain matin pr le Vietnam direction hanoi et la Baie ...

A day in the capital. We arrived at the Vientiane bus stationaround 4:30 in the morning, happy to be in one piece, and to find out luggage still on the roof. A tuk-tuk style truk dropped us off in the middle of the city, but it may has well have been the middle of nowhere. Everything would remain closed and borded up until 6:00 or 7:00 in the mo...

Good Day, Suckers I left Vang Vieng two days ago hoping to spend two nights on an island in the big reservoir north of Vientiane. I went by pickup truck again, or rather a series of 3 pickups and a boat, to get to Dok Khoun Island. I had fond memories of this place from last time, but there were some things I had forgotten about. I forgot that I...

You learn all sorts of things when you travel. For example, I learned that the country that we call "Laos" is actually not called "Laos," but is really the "Lao People's Democratic Republic" and the word "Laos" is just a mistake that happened when somebody misread the French version of "land of the Laos." This is also interesting because it mean...

Zuruek in Vientiane Nach zwei Monaten China sind wir wieder retour in Vientiane. Wir geniessen die uns vertraute Stadt und bleiben laenger als geplant. Die Tage sind ausgefuellt mit guten Kaffee trinken, Gut-Essen-Gehen, Am-Mekong-Sitzen bei gegrilltem Fisch und Bier, Fussball-WM-Schauen und Fruit-Shakes-Trinken. Von Vientiane fahren wir weiter ...

I don't know how many times I have said it over the last year, but **** I hate night buses !!! And this one was no different. At the halfway stage, I said to Welf that my knees were not coping and I was getting to old for this **** !!! And at 05:00, the heavens opened up and a huge storm took place. From that point, I didn't sleep. At 06:30, we ...

What a relief! What a breath of fresh air. I arrived in Vientiane to observe the remains of a 3-day festival and an extremely hung over town. It was a blissful silence. The streets were empty. The few visible people were smiling. It's probably the first party I feel glad to have missed. I slowly remembered the warmth and excitement I felt in Cam...