Luang Prabang is a beautiful, quiet city that has a very strong French influence. This influence is reflected both in the architecture and the food. The restaurants are amazing. Seriously, I looked forward to every meal. The night market is really great. It has tons of cool stuff for really cheap. We ate at this vegetarian buffet for 70 cents. T...

Arriving in Luang Prabang after that horrible 8 hour bus journey was a relief. The road from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang winds through the mountains and our driver had a serious lead foot. He blew a tire in one corner which to my surprise got swiftly changed in under 20mins. Luang Prabang is a world heritage village. It is very clean and has lot...

(written by Derek) A quick reminder, we won't be putting in any photos anymore until we return, then we will update the blog with the photos. We have destroyed a couple of memory cards, and are playing it safe. I'll try to grab some photos off of the web to help with the narration. After, Chiang Mai, Thailand, we caught a short 1hr flight to Lua...

Oh boy, paikallisbussit on loistavia. Ikkunat auki -ilmastointi ei koskaan ole rikki ja moottorin meteli peittaa oksentelijoiden aanet mukavasti. Kiitan onneani etta en karsi matkapahoinvoinnista, silla pohjoisen tiet ovat melkoista serpentiinia. Tosin silla on sama efekti kun laivalla, yolla sanky keinuu.. Luang Prabang.. hmmm.. kaupungin kesku...

HE SAID: Later this evening we went to a restaurant called Tamarind that serves local Lao food. We learned that Lao food is different from Thai in that there are no sauces and curries with Lao cuisine. Stacy and I thought the same thing, it's the sauces and curries that makes Thai food one of our favorites! Regardless, we had some excellent fish...

After a tour of the west and north of Laos, including a beer drinking contest in Nam Tha, 3 days on on the Nam Ou River, a couple bus rides, 3 chickens being killed in front of us as we ate breakfast (not very skillfully or cleanly might we add), and a ride on the back of a rice and fish truck; we've now arrived in the Lao Disneyland of Luang Pr...

A UNESCO world heritage site. The whole place is... Fomerly a capital of Laos.. Till the constant war from Vietnam forced it to move southwards.

Well we're finally in Luang Prabang, and I must say it has been an adventure. I'm sure we'll laugh about it in years to come, but the last couple of days have felt like a bit of a test. Our trip to Laos started in Chiang Mai, where we were picked up from our guest house at around 10:30am. We were driven to a travel agency where we had to apply f...

Luang Prabang is a beautiful old city that is protected under UNESCO world heritage listing so development of guest houses, hotels and any other tourist infrastructure is monitored and restricted which is nice. The streets are old and like most of Laos is heavily influenced by french architecture. The town sits along the Mekong river and has a l...

Hallo zusammen, gestern war der zweite Tag des Neujahrsfests. Vormittags war nicht viel los, mal abgesehen davon, dass einige ihren Alkoholpegel wieder nach oben korrigiert haben. Mittags war dann der Umzug, der ein bisschen was von einem Karnevalsumzug hat. Kern der Prozession ist der Umzug zweier Schreine (in denen die Obermoenche gesessen hab...