Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

New Dien Bien Phu Rumour

Country forums / South-East Asia Mainland

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“May 03 or so the border near Dien Bien Phu and Laos will open as an international border. No news on visa on arrival.”

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This is from the same poster who correctly predicted the change from 15 day to 30 day VOA for Laos last July. I suspect he has pretty good sources. We’ll see.

GT Rider

I have heard this too ... froma reliable source .. Treasure Travel in Luang Prabang .....

could be exciting .. we were in DBP last January and the road route between there and Sapa was well along ... ... mmm

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Looks like VOA too.

GT riders doing the route

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