Muang Ngoi main street.
The guidebooks sing the praises of the river side village of Muang Ngoi as it is only accesible by the river (i.e. no roads - though they are now building a road). I found the town to not be the place it's been made out too be - it was set up perfectly for tourists with signs up and down this street advertising all kinds of tourist needs (Accomodation, food, pharmacy etc...) it felt more Las Vegas than isolated Laos.