Cosmo Vientiane

... Vientiane this morning seeking a geocache (see geocaching.com) . 1 of 5 in the whole country. We were disappointed by the city walk. Vientiane is just a big city in construction with lots of traffic (compared to the rest of the country) and anyway not as pretty as Luang Prabang.

... with the stones on my ipod almost felt like we were in Apocalypse now! Almost....

We had a stop over in this tiny village on route called Pak Bang, which turned out to be pretty memorable (for all the wrong reasons!).. the village was just one road long and reminded me of a wild west town! They only ran electricity into the village from 6-10pm, so soon as it hit 10- it was lights out and back to our hotel rooms ...

... about the main temple in Vientiane say it’s a really worthwhile trip. It’s in the city, a 20-minute moped ride away but we both found it really disappointing. It was hugely impressive from a distance but once you paid the small entrance fee and got inside the walls it was in such a poor state of repair it felt really soulless. I have to say that in general, Vientiane was a big disappointment to us. A big, smelly, busy and smoky town, that ...

Just got off the sleeper train - for the second night in a row. Dog tired and dang this place is the hottest and stickiest yet! Must be 50 degrees in the shade and the humidity is about 1,000,000%, no exaggeration. Lucky the beer is rated by many as Asia's finest.

So, I'd like to quote Robin Williams from Good Morning Vietnam:
"The weather out there today is hot and ****** with continued hot and ...

... we went to the Laos equivalent of the Arc de Triumph (actually called Patuxi, or something) and the Champs Elysee, which they built with Chinese money which was supposed to go towards an airport. Oh well it looks pretty good. By this point we were ridiculously hot and somewhat sunburnt so went back to chill for a couple of hours. Anyway that was all the sightseeing for Vientiene done really. Later we watched the Grand Prix (with Thai commentary) in the ...

Firstly, I'm sorry it's been a while.

Vientiane is a beautiful quiet city. There are only 6 million people in the whole of Laos, so you can imagine how small the capital is. The place is dead by 11pm bar one club which is full of prostitutes and old men. Not really my cup of tea.
Our first day we went to the shooting range which turned out to be an old building, with no sides, overgrown grass and loads of ...

... his hands etc etc etc" They love it and the party rocks on !! Only other event of note is our trip on the mighty Mekong down to the capital Vientienne (where we are now) yesterday ...............the 9 hour slow boat that was supposed to leave at 9:30am...............we got there at 9 and it was packed ...........i mean really packed ...............they dont do "Sold Out" over here...............we negotiated a tiny bit of space on a sack of rice ...

... 7847;n của ta. Nhưng phải nói là Tà Lạt Mợt thông thoáng, thanh b́nh hơn nhiều. Chúng tôi không phải chen lấn, vă mồ hôi khi chọn hàng, mặc cả. Người bán cũng chỉ nói thách lên một phần, trả bằng 2/3 có thể được.

Lâu nay không mua quà ǵ cho vợ, nên lần này tôi phải nhờ hai c ...

... too impressed as the army were winning!


That eve we wandered along the many cool bamboo style restaurants on the river and ended up having Mexican! Was very nice though and such a chilled out atmosphere! We then decided to visit the bar which in the Lonely Planet is described as 'the place for picking people up', perfect so we thought for single Zach! However it mainly consisted of local Laos ...