Apsara Luang Prabang

Thursday Mar 1st After being further impressed by Bangkok Airways efficiency and quality we arrived promptly in Luang Prabang, Laos. We checked into the Apsara Hotel which was very nice and was mainly known for having one of the top 5 restaurants in ...

... at sunset *White Elephant Tour company along the main drag (Derrek's wife's cooking is delicious) Update from second trip to Luang Prabang in December 2007: The cooking class (http://www.tumtumcheng.com/index.html) is at the very end of the main ...

... Airways. It was a small prop plane, but a smooth and short flight, about an hour and a half. We landed around 3:30 at Luang Prabang airport, which has a tiny terminal where we were the only plane in sight. We got our visas and were driven to our hotel ...

... Museum, this temple was the only other spared by the Black Flag Haw and is another example of the beautiful Luang Prabang style architecture. Additionally, it houses two long racing boats. Wat Saen Located on Thanon Sakkalin, between the school ...

... 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 ...

... our way through the many sidewalk restaurants in Vietnam, it was a breath of fresh air to arrive at the Apsara Hotel in Luang Prabang.  The friendly staff, comfortable chic rooms and proximity to the main road were a few reasons we decided ...

I really wanted to love Luang Prabang, in Laos. People rave about it - calling it "Southeast Asia's most charming city" - and, when I was there before in 2004, it really was a gem. It's definitely not as far gone as Hoi An or Chiang Mai, and the heat and ...

... 's more curry-based than Vietnamese food, and the street stalls look quite appetizing (Yale was even up for sharing a sandwich from one!). Luang Prabang is on a penninsula, so there is the Nam Khan rivier on one side of town, and the Mekong River on the ...

Wednesday 8 September, 4.09pm, The Apsara House Luang Prabang is beautiful. They've been having boat races all day today, so I’ve been hanging out by the river, wandering around the markets, and eating plastic bags full of noodles. My body is ...

... working hard to push for more than the usual banana and sugarcane sweetener.  Otherwise, it's been a lovely few days.  Luang Prabang has been instrumental in bringing back some of our passion for travel and we've eaten some top notch food since ...

... do two trips to Angkor Wat (ancient capital of Cambodia, located next to Siem Reap).  Angkor Round 1:  We arrived from Luang Prabang, Laos with Adam on February 14.  We booked ourselves into the Raffles Grand Hotel D'Angkor, one of the ...

... I hadn't really met him in Laos but I sat behind him on a tiny boat coming back from the middle-of-nowhere to the "city" of Luang Prabang. There were only 10 people on the boat - and Frank sat directly in front of me - so when we reconnected in Siem Reap ...

... cost $12 each. Breakfast cost $2 for rice, $1 for drink. Lunch cost $4 each including drink Both these were within the Angkor Wat area. There are flights available from Luang Prabang. Bengli's number is 012798166. He was nice and ...

... be left as an example of how nature took over, ie the sate that the temples were found in by the french guy buried in Luang Prabang, Laos. Mr Bean agreed to stay at the main entrance rather than meet us at the other end. This was certainly an atmospheric ...