Luang Prabang Resorts - Reviews and Rates

We reached the end of our meandering journey on the Mekong at the sleepy city of Luang Prabang. The city – with a population of 26000 I use the term loosely – is a delightful mixture of ancient Lao and colonial French architecture, so far managing to avoid modernisation or development in concrete and glass. The buildings are beautif...

After finally ending our cramped and sweaty boat ride, we were pretty desperate to settle into a guesthouse and get clean, and luckily we found a cheap one fairly near the center. Christie even managed to negotiate a discount on the rooms. Once we'd sorted our stuff out, we set out, starving hungry in search of food, which took a bit longer than...

So we got on the slow boat at 11 in the morning on Sunday. We brought with us two small loaves of bread and figured that would be plenty for the boat ride...we were wrong lol. It would have been really nice to have more snacks. The boat ride was sooo relaxing. We bought VIP seats so we sat in seats that were basically just like seats in a car. A...

Saa skete det at vores vej faldt forbi en computer endnu engang, nu udstyret med "Lao-highspeed" forbindelse, som manden bag skranken saa kyndigt forklarede den dumme tourist da jeg spurgte om hastigheden paa internettet. Jeg springer lidt over med fortaellingerne og gaar direkte igang med historien om vores ophold i Luang Phabang - hov er noed ...

No other words to descibe Luang Prabang but gorgeous! After another winding bus journey to Luang Prabang we were happy to be spending 3 nights here!! Our hotel room was good so we were happy....... Our first day there was spent chlling out getting on the internet, eating some food and then at night we headed for some drinks at a place called Lao...

Started by walking towards the New Year's market that stretches from the Museum south to the stadium. Rather like the night market but ten times the size so we decided to take a break and climb the junior slopes of Mount Phosi for a break and to watch the action. On the way got drowned for the first time which was cooling at least. Every 50 yard...

Author's Note: In my last blog entry, I insinuated that America's current commander-in-chief may or may not be developmentally disabled. Following that posting, I received several irate responses from my readers. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for that ill-conceived comparison. It was a cheap shot, and I truly did not mean to...

We woke up about 8am, and went straight out, even though it looked a bit grey and threatened rain.

We grabbed a quick bite for breakfast, and then headed off to the Tourist Office to get a map, and to find out where the Vietnamese Consulate was, because our next destination will be Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, and we needed to arrange a vi...

We got on a different boat on the way to LP, which has comfy seats (looed like theyd been ripped straight out of an old coach), but we werelate to the boat and had to sit apart. The back part of the boat had the floor covered wth sack full of rice. People and their luggage were sprawled about these sacks and there were maybe extra 30 people from...

This morning I came along with Kang to an orphanage near Luang Prabang. He's been helping them out for a few years now, I think he told me, and I was more than happy to have the chance to come along with him. First we stopped by a local market, where he bought about 300 notebooks (for the 300 or so orphans at the school), along with some black a...