Wednesday 15th February With Robert, we got picked up at 7am near the hotel and then joined people in a minivan. We had a 2-hour bus ride to the boat. The boat ride was quiet, not much to see on the riverside. Of course the boat broke down at some point: But that wasn’t too … More Vietnam: Chau Doc, Saigon, Nha Trang
Friday 10th February We left 4,000 islands around 8am, driven by boat by our guest house owner. I had never sat so low on a boat! The ride was really gorgeous to the land. Then we had a minivan to the Lao-Cambodia border with 2 German guys and one Australian from Canberra. We got screwed … More Cambodia again
Comment ce dictionnaire est-il né ? C’est un jeune suisse-allemand, Amando, rencontré dans le bus entre Luang Prabang et Luang Nam Tha lors de mon quatrième jour de voyage au Laos qui m’a enseigné la majorité des mots utiles présentés ici, durant les 9 heures du trajet que nous avions. J’ai ajouté à ces mots quelques … More Dictionnaire Français-Laotien
How was this dictionary born? It’s a young Swiss-German guy, Amando, met in a 9-hour bus between Luang Prabang and Luang Nam Tha on my fourth day in Lao, who taught me most of the words presented here. I added to these some other words I happened to need during the rest of my 5-week … More English-Lao Dictionary
5th February With Neringa, we took a bus at 9am from Vang Vieng to Ventiane. The road to get there was really bumpy, the worst I have seen so far! We got there around 1pm, and wanted to buy a ticket to go straight to Pakse with a night bus in the evening, but it … More From Vang Vieng to 4,000 islands
31th January We spent the day in Luang Prabang with Neringa. Luang Prabang is a small city but quite pretty. On one side, you have the Mekong On the opposite side, another river In the middle, a lot of tourists and a few temples, like this one where kids were playing a kind of petanque … More From Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng
26th January I left Phongsaly with Juzie and Fabio and a bunch of other falangs in the morning to go to Hat Sa (1h bus) take the boat for Muang Khua. Delphine took a bus to Vientiane. Phongsaly was wrapped in fog that morning. There was this Akha woman waiting at our bus stop too … More Northern Lao: Muang Ngoi Neua
18th January I was in Udomxai and I took the bus to Phongsali the next morning. My friends from Muang Sing went to Nong Khiaw and other people to Luang Prabang. So I was the only “falang” (foreign) in the bus, which felt great. In the bus there was a woman who had 2 elephants, … More Northern Lao: Phongsaly
On 13th January, I took a bus from Luang Nam Tha to Muang Sing, North West of it. It is a small village very close to the China border and surrounded by many ethnies villages. When I got there, it was really cloudy, and it was the first time I was wearing my 2 jumpers, … More Northern Lao: Muang Sing & co
Welcome to Laaaaooooo!!! The country of slowliness. 🙂 I started my trip in Laos by taking the slow boat between Thailand (Chiang Kong) and Luang Prabang (Laos). This boat takes 2 days down the Mekong and stops one night in a small village called Pak Beng. Ah the Mekong! I only spent 2 days on … More Lao – Mekong & Luang Nam Tha
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