Ancient Luang Prabang Hotel

... something through the airport booking office and then caught a taxi into the centre of town.   We had booked the Ancient Luang Prabang Hotel, which doesn't sound great from the name, but we were very pleasantly surprised when we checked in - ...

... young and worked for a travel guide promoting Laos. They spoke a little English and were friendly and helpful. When I arrived in Luang Prabang, they helped me give instructions to the driver so that the driver can drop me off at the night market and ...

... area also had its own charm including a neat cluster of bars and restaurants on the lower slopes of Phu Si.   Luang Prabang is a heady combination of ageing French provincial buildings, temples, coconut palm trees, brick paved lanes, lush plants, ...

... not seem to make a lot of sense, leaving us unsure whether this is in fact the proper explanation.   Luang Prabang - UNESCO World Heritage Town: After arriving and getting settled into an air-conditioned room, a luxury during this ...

... awesome kind of place at all times, even though we only got two short short days there... As we arrived at the Luang Prabang airport, I was stunned to find that although I had already declared Siem Reap's airport the smallest/simplest in the world, I ...

... and North Vietnam) and the country was re-named the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.  Our first destination was Luang Prabang; in ancient times it used to be the capital of the independent kingdom of Luang Prabang and more recently the capital ...

... than that offered in the public school system. Therefore the Wats serve as educators for the sons of poor families. Because Luang Prabang is recognised nationally as being a mecca for Theravada Buddhism there are more than 80 monasteries, all of them ...

... massive royal funeral boat with urns big enough to accommodate the royal corpses standing upright. After seeing numerous wats here in Luang Prabang, we found them all interesting and having a greater variety than say the Bhutan Dzongs - and we ...

... the east, imprisoned, starved and neglected till they perished. The wife of the crown prince still survives, however and owns a hotel in Luang Prabang formerly named after her. Now, the museum seems to celebrate their reign, yet there is a haunting feel ...

... aren't a surprise to me. Our Wat Walk takes us through the nearly 500 year old Wat Xieng Thong, which is Luang Prabang's largest temple site. Monk robes are out to dry from their living areas, which are separate (and somewhat boring) buildings ...

Greetings all you blog lovers out there.  The next entry on the Magical Mystery Tour is about a special place in Laos called Luang Prabang.  LPB as we will call it is located in the Northwest of Laos.  It can currently be reached three ...

... limo. Quite a departing statement and very much to Bob's liking. We flew over jungles and verdant mountains to arrive in Luang Prabang. This town is nestled coolly in the mountains along the Mekong river. It was an ancient capitol of Laos and a ...

... to slum it anymore. So I got the nicest place I have stayed in Southeast Asia. It's the newly remodeled Ancient Luang Prabang Hotel (oddly, it was previously called the New Luang Prabang Hotel). Normally, an decent place with air conditioning would ...

... change to walk outside of Luang Prabang Airport and find no one screaming "motorbike! tuk tuk! good price!" at you.  Luang Prabang is a quaint little town that has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.  It's clean, there's no ...

... temples that has been in continuous use since its founding. The sim's sweeping roofs are considered the definition of the Luang Prabang style of architecture. The front gable ends are richly decorated with intricate gold designs on red ochre background. ...

Laos/ Chaing Mai/ Bangkok/ Krabi I flew into Luang Prabang and the scenery was breath taking. A sea of jungle with mists swirling around the hills and a large raging river winding through it all. It reminded me of flying over New Guinea. I meet an ...

Luang Prabang (I don't have the guidebook with me so I might be making a bit of the following up): the glittering jewel of the Mekong, home to 20,000 (and two for a few days), place of a thousand Wats (actually it's around 200, but to he honest that ...

... Andy.  We awoke at 5:30 Christmas morning and not because we heard reindeer on the roof. We were staying in the (new) Ancient Luang Prabang, in a room right at street level, in the quieter end of town and were now waking up to observe the alms giving ...

... ? Twenty km more along a wide road that becomes busier and busier with mopeds as we approach Luang Probang. We check into the Ancient Luang Probang Hotel. It is quite modern and chic  . The room is spacious with a bath but the hot water system is ...