Blogs from Laos, Asia - page 508

Still hanging out here in Sunny Savanahket, it's just so friendly and pleasant I just can't be bothered to get on the bus and move on, not in a hurry, I'm done with the rushing around to see amazing things, It's nice chilling here getting to know the locals. Took my laundry down a shop, and the patrons filled me with local tea and a shedload of Rice Whiskey, here drinking in the morning is normal, I spent the afternoon recovering. College students in particular like to stop you in the street and practise a bit of English. Visited the local 'Dinosaur Museum' yesterday, one room and al but it had a certain quaintness and the curator was very proud of it, usually in big musuems I spend a max of 2 minutes in one room, ... read more

Vientiane as a capital city is amazingly quiet, especially after coming from the chaos that is China. There’s hardly any traffic, the Tuk Tuk drivers take no for an answer the first time you say it and there are hardly any street vendors and beggars tugging at your shirt every 5 minutes! Strange the whole population of Laos is significantly less than any of the majority of cities we visited in China. Despite the national midnight curfew we found an open air night club on the forth floor of the Chan Palace hotel. Open until 4am this popular club plays hosts to the trendy Vientiane locals and it wasn't long before we were chatting to a friendly group who insisted we help them finish a couple bottles of Johnny Walker. They would not take no for ... read more

Days away 16 Massages 6 Traditional Lao Stream room 2 Marriage proposals 2 I am at peace when i live in the moment. I am at peace when i am surrounded by nature. I am at peace when i am appreciating the beauty in the world. I am at peace when i can be me. I am at peace sitting right here.... (This was written cruising down the Mekong - was that too deep?) 5 things i have done in Asia but was warned not to: ... read more

Vang Vieng We arrived at Vang Vieng at around 4am, feeling rough after the long journey which seemed to take an age, we went straight to sleep at the first guest house in sight. Up bright and early and feeling very hungry we stopped at the first restaurant we stumbled across. I had a look through the menu to order food and found that the last page was a menu of pizza and shakes made from magic mushrooms, weed and opium - crazy!! The village in general is hugely chilled out. You can see that it is very much geared towards backpackers and has more of a Western feel to it than Luang Prabang. The bars are open past 11pm, the restaurants have ‘happy’ pizza's, mushroom shakes and opium tea on the menu and there is ... read more

Well we made it to Laos a couple days ago on an overngiht train from bangkok. Wow is there ever a change from bangkok to even the capital city of Laos. In Laos there is only about 1/16 of the amount of tourists as thailand so the cab drivers and tuk tuk drivers and the rest of the community are not out to get your money like thailand. The people here are very intrigued by seeing us because tourism is not big here..they choose to ask us many questions about our culture and where we are from instead. So far i love it here. All the houses are made out of sticks, there are unpaved roads and living is easy and simple. We are definatly lucky to live in a country like canada. When we got ... read more