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Off the Beaten Track in Northern Laos
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 17 November 2011
We are back in South East Asia, settled in Chiang Mai for the moment, but we can’t help our thoughts turning to Laos, just six hours away and one of our favourite Asian countries. Laos isn’t undiscovered but it certainly receives far fewer visitors than its neighbour Thailand.
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On Books
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 15 June 2010
Back in Udomxay, the construction town in northern Laos where our two-day odyssey from Vietnam reached a natural close, we met a crazy Canadian chap with an Irish accent and a Beer Lao can seemingly stapled twixt thumb and forefinger. Not so much met as, perhaps, attracted. Charming chap. Pushing 70. Thoroughly pickled 24-7. And [...]
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A Rainy Season Odyssey
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 14 June 2010
The start of the monsoon season in Vietnam’s northern highlands is a beautiful thing. The rivers turn turbid and golden, rapids smearing the surface like toffee coming to the boil; young rice seedlings and their older siblings stipple paddy terraces in varying greens; waterfalls appear everywhere you look. Old women from the hill tribes carry [...]
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Lao Village Life – Reality Check
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 20 April 2010
If you hope to go to the countryside for some quiet time, you might be in for a surprise. We passed by this traditional village between Luang Nam Tha and Muang Sing in Laos – and it definitely didn’t sound like our dream getaway! Watch this short clip about the acoustic reality of Lao village [...]
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12 Reasons Not to Take the Slow Boat
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 20 January 2010
The legendary slow boat. Love it or loath it, all SEA travellers have their tales to tell. Most seem to loath the boat but to love moaning about it. We spent some days agonizing over whether to give it a go. Virtually everyone crossing from north Thailand into Laos takes it. Each morning the boat, [...]
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Luang Nam Tha: You win some, you lose some
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 2 April 2009
While most people spend their days in southern SE Asia lying around on pristine beaches, drinking fresh fruit shakes, and snorkeling in warm ocean water, the north’s main activity is trekking, usually to hill-tribe minority villages. Multi-day treks are very popular in northern Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. We had such an amazing time on our [...]
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