Guest Houses in Vientiane

... the capital.  There are nicely paved streets throughout the town, old French colonial terraces and buildings, expensive guest houses, sidewalk cafes and French restaurants, nice fountains, a beautiful riverside promenade... and poverty on the ...

... a couple of guest houses in Phong Hong (40,000), plus if you want to carry on a bit along the road to Vientiane, there are  guest houses 50 and 45 kms from Ventiane also.   Phong Hong - Vientiane (72 kms)  Pretty flat most of the ...

... lurches again. The driver is constsntly fiddling with the bike as we are going. Finally, we stop for me to check out one of the guest houses. I come back in no more than 2 minutes and Amy and the tuk-tuk are there, but no driver and no gas tank on the ...

... 's abroad' holiday hell we try to avoid. Vang Viene; a long line of restaurants all showing friends, and another long line of guest houses and hotels. The attraction here is the floating inner tubes, bar-crawl down the Mekong river which ends back in the ...

... busy after the last few weeks somewhat "off-the beaten track" and this was borne out by the number of fully booked guest houses we tried before finding the one for us.   Another country colonized by the French, the legacies left included good ...

... Lao lunch, then went back to the guest house where I spent a few hours on the internet (using my iPhone) to research some guest houses in Hanoi and update my blog. During that time, I saw lots of backpackers (including the annoying Chinese group from my ...

... around 7:00 pm and it was next to impossible to find a hotel room. There were so many tourists here that most of the guest houses were full. After walking in the dark with our backpacks for about an hour, we finally found a room in a rather dingy ...

... into guest house and went out for few drinks to get the feel of the place. Everyone headed of early to do internet or whatever as guest houses close at 12pm here but Joel Donough and myself thought there is bound to be more to this town so we sat on. ...

... me up outside my guest house at 9am. A three hour bumpy ride later and i was in the Laos capital Vientiane. After three or four guest houses later i eventually found one that wasn't full. A prison cell whose bed was the size of the room with no ...

We caught the bus around midday and went on a tour of vang Vieng as it picked up passengers from the various guest houses in town. At most stops we picked up hungover looking teenagers, and we marvelled as their friends stood zombie-like on the pavement, ...

... History lesson + info: Vang Vieng today is mainly a backpacker town. The main street is littered with guest houses, bars, restaurants, internet cafes and tour agencies. Almost all the restaurants have large televisions playing American sitcoms ...

... was the most sedate capital we had visited so far. It was Saturday night and the main traveler stretch was deserted. If all the guest houses were full - where the hell was everyone ? Compared to Luang Prabang, there was no buzz to the area…..it just ...

... was pretty neat watching the city come to life.  Not being a morning person, this is a rare sight for me. By 7:00, the guest houses were opening up, and we were able to check into a room.  We passed out for about an hour, before taking on ...

... fried rice ever, with chicken bones and the smell of fish, nice!!.. i spent the early evening watching a little tv and looking at guest houses in Hanoi from the lonely planet guide. In the evening i had pizza again in the Bon Penn Yhang rooftop bar. Met ...

arrived in the capital yesterday evening. spent ages walking around guest houses and established they are very expensive. our group had to split up and we stayed in a rubbish hotel. This morning we checked into the same place as most of the others which ...

... little place where we made our own fresh spring rolls. The next morning we collected our Vietnam visas and we headed to the bus station with Paul and Catherine to go to Thakek. Vientiane wasn't our favourite city but was enough to amuse for a day or ...

... , had a walk round the town, got a feel for the place and had an early night. One thing we did realise that, Vientiane, as a capital city in a country with twice the population of Ireland, is about the same size as Waterford or Kilkenny! After being to ...

... ourselves a cup of tea and croissants - well needed after a nights travelling. We checked into a guest house, before heading out to a Temple which houses over 2000 minature buddha's.  There was also a gated area within the temple that was full ...