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Luang Prabang - can you hear me?

14 September 2008 | Last Update 05 January 2009

P: I was feeling sick on arrival in Luang Prabang, just a little nauseous nothing serious... The town was in the middle of a Dragon Boat festival and was very well decorated. The special market was in full swing when we arrived and had taken over the entire main street for the length of at least a k...

Phonsavan and the Plain of Jars

13 September 2008 | Last Update 05 January 2009

 P: Getting to the Plain of Jars was a little arduous! The bus was supposed to leave at seven thirty and in true Lao style the tickets could only be bought on the day of travel. That morning worried about availability we went to the bus station at seven after a very hurried breakfast. We got ou...

Vientiane capital city of Laos

12 September 2008 | Last Update 05 January 2009

A: We took a night bus from Pakse to Vientiane. The bus was pretty much how you would imagine the bus in Harry Potter. We had real beds, TV... It was pretty cool. Once in Vientiane, we eventually found a place to stay and then had a look around town. When you look over the Mekong river, you can see ...

Pakse: Meeting locals & Southern Swing

11 September 2008 | Last Update 05 January 2009

A: Pakse was mainly a one-main-street town in which we stayed a few days in order to organise motorbikes. We wanted to do the "southern swing" described in the LP guidebook and also came highly recommended by a guy we met in Vietnam. Let me tell you here a lovely example of intercultural u...

Don Khong - The 4,000 Islands

10 September 2008 | Last Update 05 January 2009

P: Well Laos proved to be pretty different pretty quickly! A few minutes after crossing the border we were trundled off of the bus. Thankfully the Argentinians we had been travelling with were left on the bus. We then had to give our bags to a motorbike driver who balanced them between his legs and ...

      
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