Vientiane Villas - Reviews and Rates

On ne voulais pas passer trop de temps a Vang Vieng comme vous l'aviez compris, on est donc parti le matin, pour la capitale Vientiane, mais avec 2 heures de kayak en chemin avec Barbecue Lao improvise au bord de la riviere par nos guide.

C'etait sympa de couper le trajet avec une activite a mi chemin, meme si le trajet n'etait que de 3 h...

October 3rd
So we took off on our Laos Airlines flight and we were in Vientiane in 40 minutes. We were both quite hungry, after being guesthouse-bound the whole day. Straight after booking into our lovely hotel we set off to find food.
Before we go any further i must mention: we were staying amongst a rural/working class populous. This p...

We had heard people say that the bus from Hanoi to Laos was hell - 24 hrs, border crossing, crammed bus, etc., but it wasn't too bad. The blokes in charge of the bags of rice on board could have been less dictatorial and they had to be persuaded to drop us off at least somewhere near our destination, but what can you do!
After the success of...

HEaded down fron Vang Vieng to the capital of Laos. Here I had a couple of days chill time whilst my Thai visa was get sorted.

We got the bus from Phonsavan to Vientiane, now it was supposed to take 9 hours but ut ended up being 13! Our bus was supposed to be the 7am bus but it didn't leave till 8.40, an hour and a half in we met up with the 6am bus broken down so they piled on as many as possible fillling up the isles with bucket seats of people. We even had 4 massive ...

Laos - Part 2.. So, Laos continues. I have added the missed photos from part 1 of Laos. There were so many good ones, it was hard to choose the few that wouldn't take forever to download. Well! Having had a great few days and NIGHTS in Luang Prabang, we moved on and still very much in our dedicated band of party inclined group. We departed early...

Dec 12-16, 2008; Vientiane, Lao PDR Welcome to Lao, PDR I arrived the evening of Dec 12 at Vientiane Airport in Lao Populare Democratique Republique (PDR). The first thing that I noticed is there is no letter s at the end of Lao. Why the Francophone spelling of the country added a silent s, I don't really know. Lao, the national language and nat...

Day 11 - Ponsavan to Vientiane - 211108 There're multiple buses that leave for Vientiane every morning. I decided to take the bus ride out at 7am so as to have a good chance of reaching Vientiane before sunset. My tuk tuk driver was late in picking me up so I only got to the bus station 10 mins before time. Chucked my bags under the bus's luggag...

Vientiane is like Vietnam with the sound turned down. It has the old French buildings, the cone hated women, the beautiful big boulevards and the great French cooking with a SE Asian spice that Vietnam does, but it is so so so much more laid back and pleasant. This is the most un-capitol city capitol city I've ever been in. It's only when you ha...

Before I tell you about our travels into Laos I first have to very quickly tell you about the Elephant Nature park I went to before we left Chiang Mai. Its been set up by a Thai women (Lek) who is trying single-handedly to rescue elephants off the streets of Chiang Mai and Bangkok or any that she finds generally mistreated. Sadly this means ther...