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Sunset over Lake Saen View to our balcony library corner of the open-air restaurant Garden by night

Viang Yonok Chiang Saen

201, Moo 3, Dtumbon Yonok, Chiang Saen Lake Chiang Saen, 57150, Thailand

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Forging ahead to Laos

A travel blog entry by givatts

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... another scam successfully avoided!

The evening was spent at Hive bar, the only bar in town – not it’s tag line. The shots and beer seemed like a good idea at the time, no one was thinking about the next day and a similarly long journey going in a straight line looking at trees.

In the morning we grabbed some baguettes for lunch and made our way back to the dock to discover the hill we’d climbed up in the dark ...

Jungle Fever

A travel blog entry by mikeandsheila

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... ingredients, as well as pork,lemongrass and water. In the cooking tent Muong cooks up batch of sticky rice.

Jungle Moonshine
Then Boket produces a coke bottle with a small amount of blue liquid in it - looks like kerosene, tastes like kerosene, but is in fact a local home brew, known throughout the country as Lao Lao (Lao whiskey). When the bamboo cooking tube has done its job, we retire to the cooking hut to sit at a bamboo table and enjoy the ...

And all the roads that lead you there are winding

A travel blog entry by sarahandandy

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... to minimise the wait, but when we got there we were told they had been and gone already (bloody typical!). It was 45 minutes before we eventually got picked up and we were on our way.

The journey didn't turn out to be too bad. The winding roads meant that having a nap was almost impossible, but we did stop every hour or so which was nice as it meant we could stretch our legs and go to the toilet. Some of the toilets were in ...

Paddling the Mighty Mekong

A travel blog entry by deerhunter

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I'd picked a good spot to start from. The river on day one was kind to me and I had time and space to get used to her. I had some nervous moments from passing slow boats and speed boats, dealing with their wake had been a major concern, but HMS Falang dealt with it all admirably.

Her only problem seemed to be the amount of water she was taking on. My bare feet were inadvertently taking a lot of the sealant gum off the insides and, well, she was an old craft ...

Lao

A travel blog entry by tonztosee

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We had planned to spend more time in
Laos but for several reasons it wasn't possible – on this trip. We
may not have had much time but our timing was good. From a sleepy
Thai town we crossed the Mekong river to what would normally be an
even sleepier Lao town but not that night. Everywhere preparations
were being made for the big light festival. The festivities ...

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