Destination: Laos

I spy something starting with R... Rice Field? Correct!

Fri, 1 Jul 2011 | By leaandray | Views [464] | Comments [2]

So we made it to Chiang Mai safe and sound, sat around in the airport for a while and then jumped on a bus to start the journey to the Laos border... The bus ride was rather uneventful, although the roads the further we got out became more and more ... Read more >

Photos: Meandering along the Mekong in Southern Laos

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 | By steve_and_emma | Photo Gallery

Meandering along the Mekong in Southern Laos

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 | By steve_and_emma | Views [683]

Up until recently we kept classing our trips and travels to Indochina as taking place 5 years ago; then it dawned on us that it was actually a decade ago!   Hmm, time to head back to Laos and see what the southern area had to offer.... Read more >

Bens Bus Ramble

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 | By hootons | Views [569]

It's not all fun and games this backpacking life. Reading travel blogs is often enough to make you sick, all 'happy happy joy joy' with little mention of the mundane and frustrating parts of getting from here to there. For example with us, we haven't ... Read more >

Photos: The Loop

Sun, 29 May 2011 | By hootons | Flickr Photo Gallery

Photos: Vang Vieng & Vientiane

Sun, 29 May 2011 | By hootons | Flickr Photo Gallery

Buttocks of Steel

Sun, 29 May 2011 | By hootons | Views [702]

Buttocks of Steel The night before we first straddled Parker (our trusty 110cc Chinese import motorcycle with tyres the width of bicycle tyres) we sat and read through the notes of other travellers who had gone on the 'loop', a 320 km circular stretch ... Read more >

They've Got That Something

Thu, 26 May 2011 | By mpreece7 | Views [565]

There is something about the Laos people that make them incredibly cool. I don’t mean cool in the same way we do in the west or in a Fonzie sort of way, but I mean cool in a “Yeah that dog just peed on my leg so what, dogs need to pee!” kind of way.... Read more >

Tags: cool, laos, laotians, people, wonderful

Photos: Luang Prabang

Thu, 19 May 2011 | By hootons | Flickr Photo Gallery

Photos: Two day Mekong

Thu, 19 May 2011 | By hootons | Flickr Photo Gallery

Slow Boat, Luang Prabang and the party town of Vang Vieng

Wed, 18 May 2011 | By hootons | Views [1731]

Following the Gibbon experience we hopped onto the slow boat for two days down the mighty Mekong River. Before watching an impromptu group of Lao people try to drag several sheets of steel from the bed of the river we were off, taking in the beautiful ... Read more >

Photos: The Gibbon Experience

Sat, 14 May 2011 | By hootons | Flickr Photo Gallery

Photos: Thai - Laos Crossing

Sat, 14 May 2011 | By hootons | Flickr Photo Gallery

The Gibbon Experience

Sat, 14 May 2011 | By hootons | Views [1130]

Angie is away on a weaving course so ill give you a personal account of my favourite day.   Day 2 (first morning)   It's 5.40am and I'm awake before the alarm. Our tree hut has no walls or blinds so resistance is useless when the sun decides you should ... Read more >

Cambodia, An Introduction to Chaos

Sat, 7 May 2011 | By mpreece7 | Views [486]

Anyone who travels owes it to themselves to pick up a book and/or google the place they are about to insert themselves into. By researching you can better equip yourself for madness if it should arise. Ally and I had been fairly lucky throughout Laos, ... Read more >

Tags: cambodia, headaches, siem reap, travel