Before we arrived in Luang Prabang we though we would come to a big and crowded city, but we could’nt have been more wrong. The city did not have more than 50 000 inhabitants, and it felt like half of those were buddhist monks, walking around in their orange robes.The city itself was not much...Read More
In between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, we stopped in a small city in the middle of the Lao mountains called Vang Vieng. The city has grown bigger because of one thing you can do there: “tubing”. The city has totally given in to the backpackers coming by, and when you walk down the street, you...Read More
Since there were no buses going directly from the Cambodian capital to the Laos Capital, we had to make a stop in Pakse, which is the city where bus destinations from the four South-East Asian capitols meet each other (Bankok, Phnom Penh, Vientiane and Hanoi). The border town did not have much to offer, except...Read More
When we first got to the capital of Laos, it felt like stepping into a small French city, with bakeries on every street corner selling “croissants” and “le baguette”. Snails and frogs were also on the menu, but as we were really hungry we decided to go for a steak as big as 650grams. This...Read More