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Travel Inspiration – Cycling through the Countryside in Vang Vieng, Laos
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 2 February 2012
Vang Vieng in Laos is one of those places that you hear mixed reviews about. Some people have the time of their lives while others can't wait to get out of there. The general apprehension is that if you're a twenty year old backpacker wanting to get drunk and go tubing down a river, you'll love it. If you fit into any other category, you'll hate the place. I wanted to find out for myself.
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May 2010 Desktop Wallpaper
Blog: Mood to Travel - 30 April 2010
May 2010 DesktopHere is a desktop for May 2010. The picture was taken from our hotel window in Vang Vieng, Laos.
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The VIP Bus
Blog: Some Travel Required - 3 April 2010
The VIP bus is anything but. The only indication that it is in fact the VIP bus are the huge letters emblazoned across the front windshield that read "VIP." The seats are all made of the plastic pleathery material that makes you sweat when hot, the seat numbers are scrawled in permanent marker on the backs of the seats, and the rest of the interior is in various states of disrepair. As I write this an unknown liquid substance is dripping on me from a crack in the shelving above my seat. Attempts to stem the flow of the dripping with the ugly green curtains have so far p
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Vang Vieng - taken down by one of our own
Blog: Some Travel Required - 30 March 2010
After a month of living dangerously, dining out at street stalls, pointing at unknown foods and saying "yes please, I'll have some of that," munching on hairy pieces of pork, and thoroughly enjoying every minute of it - we were finally taken down by one of our own. Craving a bit of a change from rice and noodles we decided to treat ourselves to something delicious, familiar, and undeniably western - steak and ale pie and chips. Yum. Seemed like a great idea at the time but what followed suggested otherwise.
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Up with the Larks
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 23 March 2010
So we’ve arrived in Luang Prabang, Laos, and, as ever, I’m still trying to work out whether the benefits of night buses — saves a day’s travel and the cost of a room — are outweighed by the pitiful condition in which we reach our destination. I’m not sure they’ve quite got the hang of [...]
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The Joy of Tubing
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 21 March 2010
Tubing, or floating down a river in a tractor inner tube, is what brought us to Vang Vieng, Laos, where the locals have made a kind of lethal artform out of it. The deal is this. You hire your inner tube, put your faith and your cash in a Lao drybag then pile into a tuktuk [...]
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Bang Bang, Vang Vieng
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 21 March 2010
Vang Vieng, Laos. Sullied paradise. Stoner playground. Backpacker hell. Apparently not the ideal destination to explore with child in tow, silkscreen landscape, gorgeous river and tubing paradise notwithstanding. My son, however, is loving the place, from our hippyesque hut on the river to the identikit TV bars, international restaurants, pancake stands and, err, brownie stores which [...]
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Age-Appropriate Reading (Again)
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 17 March 2010
Z is scrutinising Lonely Planet South-East Asia with an expression I can only describe as panic. “Mum,” he says. “I really don’t think it’s a good idea to go to Vang Vieng.” Vang Vieng, Laos, is a destination I’ve been to-ing and fro-ing over, as it happens. On balance, I reckon that an other-worldly landscape, white water [...]
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Vang Vieng and tubing
Blog: Orn's travel blog - South-East Asia and China - 16 March 2010
Vang Vieng surely is a town one of its kind! We arrived just when it was getting dark and the town was starting to get lively. Many of the restaurants where playing Friends or Family Guy on the TV and the guests lounged on benches, sipping beer and watching the shows – it all looked [...]
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Friday Flashback: Vang Vieng & Luang Prabang
Blog: GoBackpacking - 12 March 2010
Tubing in Vang Vieng was the driving force behind my visit to Laos. It turned out to be as good a reason as any, and I was glad to make it to the little backpacker haven for my 32nd birthday as well. I celebrated with rock climbing by day, and Korean BBQ and beers by [...]Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Friday Flashback: Splurging in Vientiane
Blog: GoBackpacking - 5 March 2010
I stopped in Vientiane for 4 nights of boutique hotel bliss and top notch French food. I found there was actually quite a bit to do in and around the capital city of Laos. Pakse Pitstop A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky – photos from the only boutique hotel of my trip. My 3-Course Lunch at Le Central [...]Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.
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Vang Vieng
Blog: Many Moon Honeymoon - 5 March 2010
We arrived in Vang Vieng after a rather hairy seven hour minibus taxi ride from Luang Prabang. The trip was advertised as four hours, but our busted up transport was definitely past it's sell by date. It was old, cramped and very slow.
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Sobriety down the tube. Vang Vieng, Laos
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 18 February 2010
Somewhere in the heart of Laos the sun is beginning to set over a shallow, brown river in a dusty little town. The silence is broken by the patter of tiny feet making their way hurridly over a make-shift wooden bridge. As he gets nearer to the other side the little boy cuts the corner, [...]
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Losing It In Laos
Blog: Wanderlust - 31 January 2010
Morning Alm in Luang Probang, Laos Things have been pretty crazy over here the past few days. I’m currently still in Laos, which has turned out to be one of my favorite countries I’ve ever visited. Sadly, I’ll be leaving the country by bus on Tuesday, but a 30+ hour bus ride from hell to Chiang [...]
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Video – Tubing in Vang Vieng, Laos
Blog: GoBackpacking - 9 January 2010
_ From the Editor: During my trip around the world, there were only a handful of times I didn’t have my camera with me. Tubing in Vang Vieng, Laos is one of those rare times. I recently came across this video which captures the experience perfectly: the lazy river, rope swings, drinking, zipline, mud fights, and [...]Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a bl
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“The Long Way Laos” – A motorcycle adventure through Laos
Blog: HAPPYTIMEBLOG - 20 October 2009
Our article in full about a 550km motorbike journey through the heart of Laos, from Vang Vieng to Luang Probang and back again...
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Much Ado about Malaria
Blog: barnz2k : Vegan Nomad - 6 July 2009
I hate tablets. Pills. Vaccines. Drugs. They are expensive, have bad side effects, are full of crap I really don’t want in my body (both chemical and animal derived), almost certainly tested on animals, treat symptoms rather than the cause, and in many cases are simply ineffective! On my first big RTW trip, I had [...]
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Vang Vieng, Beauty and Relaxing in Laos
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 29 April 2009
In a landlocked country in central South East Asia, there is a tiny piece of paradise on a stop between two popular destinations.Vang Vieng Laos is a little town on route 13 between the major cities of Vientiane and Luang Prabang. A place where you can lose yourself relaxing by the river, riding a bike through incredible scenery, exploring remote caves or simply lazing in old opium dens watching the lat
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