Vayakorn Guest House Vientiane

... always within eyesight. We decided to check out some of these wats while making our way to the city's biggest market, Talat Sao. Vientiane, while running alongside the Mekong, is a very dry city - at least at this time of year. Many of the streets aren ...

... to catch a good night's sleep. I did catch some shut-eye though so the 11 hours it took from Luang Prabang back down to Vientiane went relatively quickly. But when I arrived in Vientiane at 7.30 a.m. all I wanted to do was find a bed and sleep a few more ...

... the Allies dropped on Germany during the entire WWII. After passing immigration we got a taxi into Vientiane (B300). The taxi took us directly to the Vayakorn guest House ($18/night), which is the Lonely Planet author's choice for Vientiane. Luckily we ...

... from US purchased cement, apparently meant for a runway at the airport. This is much prettier. The most famed monument in Vientiane (and perhaps Laos) is Pha That Luang (pictured). We missed the Buddha Park due to a timing miscalculation. We feel like ...

... the bustling streets of Hanoi and the always haggling Vietnamese to probably the most laid-back capital we've ever visited, Vientiane. We arrive and the Laotians couldn't be more pleasant. There's no cadging or propositioning, in fact it doesn't appear ...