Our trips around the world…
What a title, eh? "The rest of Laos." Not lumping everything into a single category at all! But there's a reason for the lumping. Firstly, as always seems to be the way, we forgot to update the blog, and so are writing this several months after the trip had finished (oops). And secondly, after the... Continue Reading →
Before I start writing about Laos, I need to air a pet peeve. There are quite a few blogs online claiming to be the experts in travel and, in this case, state what money to take into Laos. All the articles that we read stated that US Dollars and Thai Baht are widely accepted, and... Continue Reading →
I'll start off with the boring stuff: costs. The 2 of us spent NZ$1,915 for everything during our 28 days in the country, equating to $68 a day. However a huge chunk of that ($360) was spent on the 2 day cruise at the beginning of the trip. If we hadn't have done that we... Continue Reading →
After a pretty painless 2 hour minibus ride we arrived at Ban Nampasak and promptly hopped on a small boat out to the islands. The trip out to the islands was breathtaking. The area, as the name suggests, is made up of around 4,000 islands in the Mekong river. The two main places that people... Continue Reading →
With few options available to us we booked a sleeper bus to take us the 10 hours from Vientiane to Pakse. We were told we would be collected at between 7 and 7:30pm. Well 7:30 came and went and at 7:45 we were getting nervous that we would miss our 8:30 bus. Eventually a van... Continue Reading →
The bus trip from Phonsavan to the Lao capital Vientaine was even more interesting and eventful than the first bus trip from Luang Prabang to Phonsavan. At 9 hours it was longer but in a bus virtually identical from the first. The only difference was that there was no aircon in this bus, which didn't... Continue Reading →
We woke nervously to our alarms. Our first bus trip in Laos was awaiting us. We were heading to Phonsavan and had a 8:30am pick up. Our bus was called an express bus whatever that meant. We were nice and early for the bus and arrived with time to grab our seats and some food... Continue Reading →
Luang Prabang is a beautiful town on the banks of the Mekong river with a population of just 50,000... far smaller than we were expecting. Our guesthouse was a beautiful traditional Lao house located in the heart of town run by a lovey lady and featured lots of wooden furnishings, floorboards, and a fantastic 1st... Continue Reading →
We made the decision that one of the things we would splurge on was a boat trip. There were a few options for getting to Luang Prabang. Option the first: get a 12 hour bus from Huay Xuai to Luang Prabang. Option two: a slow boat with the possibility of being seated in the engine... Continue Reading →
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