Lao Orchid Hotel Vientiane

... Traveling Down the Me Kong in a Kayak Everyone (Neil, Brad/Esther, Sarah, Mary and I) had to make their way to Vientiane, the capital of Lao, in order to split off onto our various travel paths.  For Brad, Esther and me, it would be a sad end of ...

... hard. Th Laos Orchid Hotel is much better than expected for $45 US. There's even some 'give' in the bed. Vientiane is small and easily walkable. First impressions compared to Luang Prabang are that there is more car traffic, even a ...

... person in the city goes at night. Lao people like loud music, very loud music. If you want a quiet relaxing hotel in Vientiane don't stay anywhere near the river! After applying for my visa at the Thai embassy we spent a few days exploring the city. It ...

... . He was very interesting and has worked all over the place and is now the exec chef at one of the fancier places in Vientiane. Made for a very interesting and enjoyable evening. Trouble was i still had to get back to the guset house - and then i still had ...

... I should add a little more about Vientiane as we realised we wrote this entry so early on, we'd not really seen anything. Vientiane is really a quite marvellous place to potter around. And as pottering is what we do best we were pretty happy there! We ...