Wat That Guest House Luang Prabang

... a four stop southeast Asia cultural itinerary that begins in Bangkok, goes to Siem Reap, Cambodia (Angkor Wat), Vientienne, Laos, Luang Prabang, and on to Sukhothai (the ancient capitol of Siam) before returning to Bangkok. The architectural highlight ...

... than living out her life on her own, a genetic dead end. In the afternoon we roamed the town and visited Wat Xieng Thong, Luang Prabang's most spectacular temple, built in 1560. Towards the end of the day, three of us climbed Mount Phousy, the hill ...

... other side of town.  The last thing we'd expected to see or go to in Laos was a nightclub, let alone in historic Luang Prabang. Walking inside what we had anticipated being a small and cosy setup, we were surprised by the sight of a converted ...

... and friendly.  Vientiane was the most unfriendliest place but we found the people in Vieng Vieng not too bad and Luang Prabang the friendliest. Its definitely more expensive here than Vietnam and Cambodia.  The highlight of our trip here was ...

...   I sat next to a man from Barcelona who had been travelling in Laos for a month. We exchanged travel and guest house info fr Luang Prabang and had a nice chat. As we were leaving Vientiane I soaked in the scenery of wet, green fields, oxes ...

... deep meditation and clarity) at the wats.  Our journey eventually took us to the high point and best landmark of Luang Prabang, the high golden stupa of Wat Phu Si that sits atop a hill.  After a lot of walking, we rested our paws over ...

... 11:30 at night.  So we arrived in the rain and spent a bit of time wandering around, trying to find a Guest House.  as nice as Luang Prabang is, it is a little more expensive to stay in.  We finally found a lovely Guest House close to the ...

... as well, as it was approaching 11 and the city has an 11:30 curfew which everyone has to be home by! Very strange indeed. Luang Prabang is lovely and we are sad to leave but it was much more developed and a lot more expensive than we expected. Off ...

LUANG PRABANG First of all, Laos is a fantastic country. It's main tourist draw is the city of Luang Prabang, designated a World Heritage site a few years ago. It has loads of beautiful temples and has a really chilled out atmosphere. It sits on a ...

... as the songbirds would never want to reveal their location. We did spring for a few of the more special wats in Luang Prabang, which were ornately decorated with tile mosaics that were so beautiful.  But, the absolute sweetest thing about the city ...

... we met up with the British girls we met in Chaing Mai on our trek back on the boat. We arrived in a very French inspired Luang Prabang which instantly won us over with its lush greenery and well kept streets and calm vibe on the river. Our four ...

... I wondered around the town and saw a couple of Wats and went up the Pussy or "phousi" mountain which is in the middle of luang prabang and it has a Wat or temple at the top of it. I don't know if it really fits the definition of a mountain more like a ...

... in places and we had to all get out the boat and push it at one point which was quite amusing.   We arrived at the Luang Prabang boat landing late afternoon and searched high and low for a cheap guest house, the lads looked at about 10 guest houses ...

... to get her equilibrium back in order so she chilled out while I went for a short walk around the town center. The population of Luang Prabang reaches just a little over 100,000 but it is filled with enough sights and architecture to keep the eye busy. The ...

... this 5 hour journey. Consider yourself being sandwiched between two sweaty natives.   Finally arriving in Luang Prabang around 5pm we found our way to Kinnally Guest House, dropped our bags and headed out to explore the city. We were pleasantly ...

... 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 ...

... awesome kind of place at all times, even though we only got two short short days there... As we arrived at the Luang Prabang airport, I was stunned to find that although I had already declared Siem Reap's airport the smallest/simplest in the world, I ...

... and suffering from a bad neck retired back to bed whilst the 3 of us climbed the 100m high steps of Wat Phusi to watch the sunset over Luang Prabang.......unfortunately at the top, so had EVERY other tourist! It was like having ring seats for the best ...

... place and went for lunch in a famous bakery called Joma- very old style shops and cafe’s here. Since 1995 Luang Prabang has been a Unesco World Heritage site and as such strict construction rules are followed i.e.no buildings over three stories and ...