Vientiene Travel Blogs

Priceless Lao T-Shirt Philiosphy: MIXING WITHOUT RESTRAINT BEING DARRING WHEN NO-ONE CAN SEE SHE PLAYS WITH ALL HER POSSIBLES. I'm coming home now; I've found the meaning of life. Bi-Cultural?   Walking past one of the many tacky TV bars in Vang Vien, Nam spotted a Good Friend wait…

I managed to upload some pictures! there are only a few, and I have soooo many more. I'll try to upload them when I have more time. here's the link to my photo album:http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/marjiew/LaosRight now I just got back from laos, and in Bangkok. I believe we're going to Ayudhia (…

Various trips throughout Indochina

9/15/06 So at breakfast in Luang Prabang today we were chatting with a couple from Australia whom we met the other day that are also staying at Sala Luang Prabang. We have seen them at breakfast and around Luang Prabang each day, even at the Three Nagas restaurant last night. They mentioned that …

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way

We have arrived in Vientienne from Vang Vieng from another long bus trip, although this one was in an airconditioned minibus, but still took 5-6 hours.  Vientienne looks like a nice place and is larger then the towns we have visited but It is to be expected as this is the nations capital.&…

    We were awoken by a screaming child and very heavy rainfall. We went to Vientiene morning market - a run down half outdoor half indoor dripping (because of the rain) collection of everything from food to kitchen appliances to clothes. Alex and Seto bought Laos t-shirts for 20K (1…

I'm spending 4 months backpacking SE Asia, starting in Bali, Indonesia and working my way around from there. The first 6 weeks are with my buddy Jordan and then I spend the last 10 weeks solo. Feel free to stop by and see how my adventure is going!

I awoke several times in the early morning, catching sight of some stunning scenery before drifting back to sleep. We arrived at Vietnam immigration which was quick although we had to pay an extra $2, one for a "stamp fee" and the other for "overtime" seeing as it was early on a Sunday morning.…

Having seen some of the local, within walking distance sights, today we hired bycycles, yes pedal based, human power driven bicycles from the guest house and after breakfast we headed cycling to see some of the other, further away sights. We managed to take in the monument to the unknown …

It took a 12 hour bus ride to Vientienne, the capital of Laos. A bus which we were assured was 'VIP' and was worth paying extra for, a bus with no aircon, a bus which in fact broke down after 5 mins on the road, the tyre was changed, a bus which caused an accident between a car and bus coming the o…

South east asia, land in Bankok up through thailand and loas into vietnam and down through vietnam, maybe stroll into cambodia.

Well I am about to embark on a trip which is the first of its kind for me, I am taking time out from the UK to go and discover countries I have never visited before. I'l be starting in Oz, Perth-Sydney-Cairnes-Brisbain, the to NZ, Christchurch-Auckland, Fiji, Bali, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia. To keep track of my travels keep logged on!

I took the 10am bus from Vang Vieng to Vientienne....it was funny, I booked the VIP bus - but turned out that there weren't enough people for the VIP bus to go, so they put me on a mini-van.  At first, I was not pleased by this.  I was looking forward to the more open space of the bus, in…

unfortinatly we were forced to backtrack to vientiene instead of going up to hanoi since the roads were washed out so we had to endure a 30 hour mini bus ride back to vientiene then over to hue vietnam. thank god for valium i slept most of the way