Phonsavan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I thought id book a mini bus to Phonsavan as it was a 7 hour journey through winding narrow roads up and down high mountains. Again a dense fog covered the lowlands but once high in the mountains you were above the clouds and the views were outstanding, just the mountain tips poking up through the clouds. Had a stop after about 3 hours so grabbe...

We took the bus for about 6 hours through windy mountain roads with beautiful scenery to Phonsavan. We checked into a hotel and then went exploring. The whole of this province was heavily bombed during the Vietnam War (when the US secretly attacked Laos) and there are still loads of unexploded bombs everywhere. This meant that the guesthouses an...

Day 8 - Luang Prabang to Phonsavan - 181108 Was at the Southern Bus Station at 7.30 to catch the 8am bus to Phonsavan. It was to be an 8 hr bus ride so I was under no illusions that it was going to be a comfortable one. I booked the VIP bus, which was 10,000 kip (slightly more than US$1) more than the normal bus. Well, the VIP bus looked like an...

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I have made an amazing, groundbreaking discovery here in Laos...I have discovered the world's smelliest man. I guess it's unfair to take all of the credit, seeing as he pretty much discovered me when he sat down next to me for the 9 hour bus ride from Luang Prabang to Phonsavan. I'm still wa...

After a little excitement on our final day in Luang Prabang (Clare being hauled off to the Labour Office by the Tourist Police who, having found her at the loom at Ock Pop Tok, accused her of carrying out illegal paid work without the appropriate visa!) we have moved on to Phonsavan in central Laos, which has been our base for the last couple of...

After a 7 hour bus journey and far too many turns , we arrived in Phonsavan, which is really in the middle of nowhere. People come here to see "'the Plain of jars'', an archeological site with sand stones carved into jars, which are believed to have been used as burial urns 2000 years ago. It's quite beautiful actually and it really looks like I...

I spent the day and night of Wednesday, December 12th in the tiny village of Ban Khoun Kham, located right in the heart of the limestone mountains of central Laos. I'm not really sure what counts as a village, but this in reality was simply a short string of buidings along the side of the twisting highway. Luckily enough, there was one guesthous...

So we took quite the 8 hour detour from any reasonable person's route through Laos, because we were intrigued by the mysterious Plain of Jars. This is a group of three different sites with these gigantic, inexplicable 3000 year old stone jars, and no one really knows who made them, or what they were used for. Adding to the mystery is that the si...

Today is a 7ish hour bus journey to the town of Phonsovan. The only reason we are going there is to see the mysterious Plain of Jars, three sites with giant stone jars scattered around from approximately 2000 years ago. There are various theories as to what these were used for including making rice wine but no one actually knows. The bus journey...

So i arrived in Phonsavan at 6:30 am, went to the market for breakky, found a guest house and by 8 am i was even booked on a tour to see the plain of Jars. Not bad going considering i hadn't slept all night eh. (I'm a machine! lol). When the tour bus arrived the guy i met in Nong Khiaw, who is an intrepid tour guide for India, was on it too (sma...