Luang Prabang Province
Luang Prabang Province possesses one of Northern Laos’ most diverse landscapes.
Luang Prabang Province possesses one of Northern Laos’ most diverse landscapes.
Colour is the first of Luang Prabang’s virtues to greet travellers.
Savannakhet is the country’s most populous province and is home to about 15% of all Lao citizens.
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The capital of Laos is booming.
Xieng Khuang Province is marked by contrasts, cultural and geographical.
The slowly crumbling colonial-era buildings of Savannakhet serve as reminders of the importance the French attached to what was their largest trading and administrative centre south of Vientiane.
The capital of the province, Luang Nam Tha is a quiet, ordered town where a grid pattern of streets reveals ever-so-quietly humming businesses and residences.
Founded by the French in 1905 as an administrative outpost, Pakse sits at the confluence of the Mekong River and the Se Don (Don River) and is the capital of Champasak Province.
It may not be the prettiest of Laos’ provincial capitals, but urban charm isn’t what brings tourists to Xieng Khuang’s largest city.
There must be some rule in Laos that says the further south you go the more relaxed it becomes, because just when you thought your blood pressure couldn’t drop any more, you arrive in Si Phan Don… The name literally means ‘Four Thousand Islands’,...
This bustling river port on the Mekong is in a slow and steady state of flux, encouraged by tourist dollars and Thai, Lao and Chinese trade.
Laos’s smallest and second least populous province, wedged between the Mekong River border with Thailand and the border with Myanmar, has a population of just 145, 000.
Named for the surrounding river (using the Thai pronunciation khœng rather than the Lao khǎwng), this large island measures 18km long by 8km at its widest point.
The tourist trail has well and truly found this idyllic village, tucked away on a peninsula on the Nam Ou, but unless you’re here in peak season the locals still outweigh the falang.
Lying on the broad river plains of the Nam La northwest of Luang Nam Tha, Muang Sing is a small town that grows on you by the hour.
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