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Fri, 2 Jan 2009 | By mazystar | Views [2724] | Comments [8]
The last few days have been unbelievable to say the least. I arrived on Monday and had a good night out having a couple of beers with a few other backpackers. And on Tuesday Lyb, Graeme and I decided to do the obligatory Vang Vieng tourist activity ... Read more >
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [1021]
we left luang prabang for vang vieng on the 27 th of december. Gias and karline were only planning on staying there for 3 nights before heading off to Vientiane for new years. I was planning on leaving the same time and heading for chiang mai in Thailand ... Read more >
Tags: buckets, caves, cycling, smile bar, tubing, tuk tubing
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 | By mazystar | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 28 Dec 2008 | By mazystar | Views [932] | Comments [2]
After a sleepless night in the hotel from hell complete with constant airplane noise and a never ending supply of mosquitoes, I went back to the airport to wait for my flight to Laos. ROUND TWO! The first thing I did was get some more cash and ... Read more >
Sat, 27 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [709]
the next morning, we were up early to see about getting the boat down to luang prabang. Cause if we couldn't do that we would be heading down by bus instead. There ended up being enough people to get a boat there but we paid a little bit more as they ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo bridge, christmas bowling, cycling, phu si, santa hat
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [904]
we got our bus in the morning for nong khiaw. It was a tidy mini bus with flowers on the seats and it was full. We arrive quite early and karline got confused as it had signs in nong khiaw, that it was muang ngoi. So she was wondering if we were there ... Read more >
Tags: fishing, muang ngoi
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [754]
when we got jostled back to the village on the the main road in the truck, we all got out to have lunch and say good bye to each other as we were pretty much splitting the group in half. Me and all the couples were heading on the bus to luang nam tha ... Read more >
Tags: cycling, laos bbq chill chill bill bang, muang sing, villages
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [2002] | Video
the next morning I got to the gibbon office in plenty of time. I went out looking for sunscreen as I threw away the one I had in don det, as it wasn't water resistant. But they didn't seem to have any and didn't know what I was on about. I even made ... Read more >
Tags: gibbon experience, tree house, trekking, zip wire
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [1143]
The next morning, I was up early and walked around the island before I had to get the boat back to the mainland and then a mini bus to paske. When I got there, I got a night bus ticket for that night. So I had time to kill for the day. I spent it just ... Read more >
Tags: hyai xai, slow boat
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 | By pshah13 | Views [790]
Spent 3 days here with the group and 2 days extra by myself. This is monk city and I saw lots of monks and witnessed Tak Bat which is the alms giving to the monks. This takes place very early in the morning (6:00) and hundreds of monks come out from ... Read more >
Tags: laos, luang prabang
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 | By pshah13 | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 11 Dec 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [2332] | Comments [1]
I got the bus to 4 thousand islands the next day. And then the boat to don det island. I wasn't sure where to stay and there was no one to hassle us as we got off the boat, which was great. Such a change from Vietnam already. I wandered down the track ... Read more >
Tags: 4 thousands islands, cycling, don det, facepainting, kayak, moonlight, waterfall
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 | By jsherdc | Views [966]
I booked a highly rated hostel in Luang Prabang (A World Heritage site in Laos, Described by my friend Thy as the best place to chill in asia) called SpicyLaos. In some
ways it was great. The manager was extremely helpful. They organized excursions ... Read more >
Tags: laos
cooking
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 | By seesea | Views [976]
A plane to Chiang Mai, Thailand takes only a few hours and costs $150, twice the price of the 3 day boat/bus trip. Speedboats are much faster but deaths are not unheard of. But we have the time and want to see some of the country so we booked the ... Read more >
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