Maison Souvannaphoum Hotel

... know what I mean. We went to L'Elephant for a French meal. It all seemed a bit cosmopolital after the quiet of our hotel Maison Souvannapoum ($160 a night and stunning). A great meal except I got food poisoning and had to do the 100m dash for the ...

... to get something to eat. Bumped into the 2 Irish girls who were on the minibus from Chiang Mai. Didn't get back to the hotel until around midnight. Today I have just been taken it easy, had breakfast at the hotel then wandered down to and around the town ...

... greeting here is Sa ba dee, which said at speed could just be mistaken for Zebedee...Colin experienced similar confusion in the Raffles Hotel in Siem Reap. As we were showed our room, the lady explaining how everything worked appeared to say "If you want ...

... we would be doing right now if we were still in Cambodia. In fact as I sit in the reception of our very comfortable hotel here in Laos, listening to the tragi-romantic piano music tinkling away in the background I am feeling more than a twinge of sadness ...

... and 2,500 in the upper cave (up 250 steps in about 35 degrees C). Finally we arrived at Luang Prabang and were taken to the hotel passing the most amazing temples on the way. I think we are going to like this place. The hotel is very stylish and has the ...

... so that many older houses, villas and mansions have been turned into guest houses and hotels. The gorgeous hotel we stayed at, Maison de Souvannaphoum, was the former residence of Laos Prince Souvannaphoum, although the wing we stayed in was newly ...