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- Vang Vieng - Fairly Blurry Week After The Gibbon Experience we wanted to head south to Vang Vieng, this meant going back to Luang Prabang overnight on the bus and then catching another bus south to Vang Vieng, 160kms away. When you see that the place Posted by KyleMac in INTO THE UNKNOWN | Jul 16, 2011
- The Gibbon Experience - Wow! Everyone Needs To Do This!Today we were off to The Gibbon Experience. It was a fair distance from Huay Xai so we had about a 3 hour ute drive to get us deep in the jungle. We got really lucky and snatched up the Posted by KyleMac in INTO THE UNKNOWN | Jul 16, 2011
- Luang Prabang to Huay XaiWe decided that on our last day in Luang Prabang we should get up early and view the monks receiving their daily food from the local people. Yee (our guide at the elephant camp) let us know how to observe Posted by KyleMac in INTO THE UNKNOWN | Jul 16, 2011
- LaosHi Everyone, Thanks for all your comments, it is nice to hear from everyone and find out little snippets of wht is going on back home. The second leg of the slow boat ride went quicker than expected so we arrived in Posted by alison1310 in Ali, Amy and Laurs 2011 Travels!! | Jul 15, 2011
- Chang MaiAfter a 10hr bus journey we arrived in Chang Mai at 6am. The bus journey had not been as bad as we were expecting. We were shattered but at least we had a hotel booked! When we arrived at the Posted by alison1310 in Ali, Amy and Laurs 2011 Travels!! | Jul 11, 2011
- South LaosSo we headed from the north into the flat lands and paddy fields of the south. First stop was the remote village of Kong Lo. Made the journey via VIP bus – yeah right! It was a rickety Posted by Meurig ac Sian in Rownd a Rownd | Jul 9, 2011
- Northern Laos Sabaidee, from the country of smiling people, sticky rice (some sort of rice that sticks together but not to your hands), late rickety buses and where yo have to own a water buffalo before having a wife. [img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/377717/DS Posted by Meurig ac Sian in Rownd a Rownd | Jul 7, 2011
- Laos...rockclimbing, tubing, bus journeys and sticky rice! With still two weeks before we were due to go to Malaysia, we went over from Cambodia into the southern Laos boarder and headed for a place named Si Phan Don (which means 4000 islands). A Posted by Eveness in Roaming Free | Jul 5, 2011
- Sometimes I Feel Like Throwing My Hands Up In The Air...GO GO GADGET TRAVEL! Chiang Mai - Travel - Laos So I've finally left Thailand after two and a half months, my trek was fantastic and my journey across to Laos was ...ummmm....enjoyable? The night before my trek in Chiang Mai I went Posted by Atregidgo in Bish Bash Bosh and Away... | Jul 2, 2011
- Too chilled to write...So a 30 degree day at home?! I can’t remember the last time it was 30 degrees here; it’s always so much warmer! Aside from in our current room in Laos that is, the air-con (we splashed out) is either Posted by pullboy in Lawrence's travels | Jun 27, 2011
- Laos to ThailandThe days where you actually travel from one place to another are generally the worst part of travelling. Early rises, repacking, bus stations, and the uncertainty involved with being ushered onto a random bus with no English reassurance of Posted by dpteitel in On My Stoop | Jun 21, 2011
- Luang Prabang Elephants - Buon! Buon!We were very excited and relieved when we arrived at the ‘All Lao Elephant Camp’ and found such a nice establishment where the care and welfare of the elephants was obviously priority one. We have heard many instances where travellers Posted by KyleMac in INTO THE UNKNOWN | Jun 20, 2011
- Mung NgoiWe had one last day in Hoy Xai before our journey to Mung Ngoi and we were sad to leave. Although at first the little town had felt like our prisoner, with not much to do there and many days Posted by georgiarose in Happy Travels... :-) | Jun 20, 2011
- The Gibbon Experience After an early wake up and a few Lao coffees to put a spring in our step, we packed our bags and set off to the Gibbon meet point. Me and Rose were in a group of 8, with 3 Posted by georgiarose in Happy Travels... :-) | Jun 11, 2011
- Retracing a bumpy roadIt has been over a week since I last updated on here, that’s mainly because I have been revisiting places I’ve previously described and motivation is pretty low, but also because we’ve spent a lot of times on very tedious, Posted by pullboy in Lawrence's travels | Jun 19, 2011
- Luang Prabang - Where the world slows downWell we have made it to Luang Prabang in Laos. We weren’t planning on flying but our poor organization resulted in us only having one day left on our Vietnamese visa’s, two days travel from the border. It was our Posted by KyleMac in INTO THE UNKNOWN | Jun 18, 2011
- Vang Vieng #2, LaosVang Vieng has been described as what the world would be like if it were run by teenagers. This description is remarkably astute, and this teenage civilization has capitalized on backpacker's apparent desire to regress in maturation for a Posted by dpteitel in On My Stoop | Jun 16, 2011
- Living La Vida LaosAs mentioned in Jake’s previous post, we kicked off our “goodbye b-school, hello real world” trip with a week in Northern Laos. After a two-day trip from St. Louis - which included a six hour layover in JFK, a Posted by jkirsch in Around the World with Jake and Nicole | Jun 14, 2011
- Scooter Diaries: The Loop, Part 2Wake up call: Day 2 Roosters, those bloody things haunted our sleep throughout farm-animal ridden Laos. No need for an alarm clock, as you knew that dawn would provoke a raucous welcome by the mangy birds. Day 2 began as predicted Posted by Wandering Kiwi in Footsteps of a Wandering Kiwi | Jun 13, 2011
- Scooter Diaries: The Loop, Part 1Tha Kaek, a town strung along a Mekong border with Thailand, also known for nothing except the firey sunsets over the rivers opposite bank (Thailand) and an infamous backpackers bible that lurks within the depths of Tha Kaek Travel Lodge. Posted by Wandering Kiwi in Footsteps of a Wandering Kiwi | Jun 13, 2011
- The wheels on the bus sometimes go round and roundSouth East Asian buses just HAVE to have a post dedication. We have experienced some truly white-knuckling rides in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos and it's safe to say this is probably the general trend all over the sub-continent. They Posted by Wandering Kiwi in Footsteps of a Wandering Kiwi | Jun 13, 2011
- La Vida Loca in Vang Vieng'In the tubing - Vang Vieng' is a phrase plastered all over the wearable merchandise filling wee shops that line the streets of the backpacker haunt in Vang Vieng. It doesn't even make sense! 'In the tube' maybe, or 'Tubing Posted by Wandering Kiwi in Footsteps of a Wandering Kiwi | Jun 13, 2011
- In The TubingEvery now and then I like to take part in social activities, sometimes, perhaps more rarely in outdoor activities but such a hybrid social and active event occurred on my adventures while in south central Laos. Vang Vieng is a Posted by ReganasaurusRex in The Tipsy Gypsy | Jun 12, 2011
- Buddhas in BangkokI'm now writing from Laos, where we arrived a few hours ago having travelled up to Bangkok from the Southern Thai islands, spending a few days there, and then caught a train last night. It’s a been a busy and Posted by pullboy in Lawrence's travels | Jun 9, 2011
- Goodbye India.....Here I am in the sleepy town of Hoy Xai, watching the Mekong river slip past. I have been out of India for three weeks now and excited for the next adventure.... After the chaotic yet wonderfully peaceful pace of Indian Posted by georgiarose in Happy Travels... :-) | Jun 7, 2011
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