Laos

Laos

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December 20th 2006

Published: February 6th 2007

We arrived in Luang Prabang in Laos by plane from Vietnam late in December. The flight into Laos seemed much easier than the alternative day long bus trip. Only later did we check the Lonely Planet to learn that they do not advise flying Laos Airlines due to a very poor history when it came to flights landing safely, and that they refused to release the information regarding their track record. Ho... Read Full Entry

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The Nam Song river

Christmas day was mostly spent floating down this river in inner tubes. The current was strong enough so that you could just sit back and relax

Christmas morning

With not much else to do in Vang Vieng, the unanimous decision was to drink beer for Christmas

Lovely Laos

The Nam Song river with the karst limestone mountains rising behind

Tom 'Sik Boy' 'Pockets' Cochrane

'Speeding' ahead

Riverside activities

Scattered along the side of the river are these little places to stop, buy a drink and have a little fun. This is a flying fox and tarzan rope.

Christmas afternoon

This is where we spent most of Christmas day. Sitting by the river, drinking Beer Laos and watching each other and other tourists swing into the water from the tower in the background

Half man half monkey

This dude ran into the restaurant and scooted out just as quickly. A very strange 6 seconds

Nice paint job

Hot pink dieties, I like!

Tom

Demonstrating his length

Best bus ever!

Almost like beds, with blankets and TV. Its a good thing we came across this bus at the end of the trip. Had we not, it would have been the benchmark against which all other buses would be compared, and fail.

9th February 2007

NNowack
Nathan Nowack

High Roller
I like the wad of money worth 70 cents each. That's funny. The scenery looks amazing though!!

17th March 2007

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hi!!
Hi there...! i've been looking for some journals about croatia and I found yours...although it was posted long ago I'll, obviously comment it now.. :) I'm glad you loved croatia, the sightseeing you did, and the night life... It was great reading your journal...I'm from Croatia..from Split! so..I'm veeery proud at the moment... :) I hope you're having a good time, where ever you are! bok! (maybe you remember the word- it means bye!) ;)

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