Royal palace

One of the buildings on the grounds of the royal palace

Laos 2018 part I

June 24th 2018
One airstrip, two stupas, three caves and more prosthetic limbs than we wanted to count This summer we spent five weeks in Southeast Asia. We travelled in four countries and we will here on the blog begin our story where we began the journey, in Laos. July and August aren't the best months of the year to travel in Southeast Asia. The time of the year we Europeans call "sum ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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6th September 2018

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Laos
We had an invite to visit Laos with Cockle and had to pass it up so it has fallen off our radar. Your vibrant pics have hit the right spot. Mmmm!

7th September 2018

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

It's a nice place
It is a nice place to visit. Far fewer tourists than in Thailand and by far fewer people than in Vietnam. If you decide to go there keep in mind that distances are greater than you think they are. Many roads are mountain roads and they are slow. /Ake

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