Laos

  • Daily Summaries, Laos, Travel Journal

    Day 153 – Luang Prabang

    Golden Temples and Thrones Today after lunch we decided to explore the sites of Luang Prabang. We started with the Royal Palace Museum. The museum costs 30,000 LAK / $4.91 per person. The Royal Palace was built in 1904 and was used up until 1975, when the communist party came to power. It was then […]

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  • Daily Summaries, Laos, Travel Journal

    Day 150-2 – Luang Prabang

    Sick Leave For the next couple of days, we were down with a flu, deciding to rest up instead of travelling. We stayed put in our private room at Downtown Backpackers Hostel 2. Medicine is pretty cheap in Luang Prabang, and we just ate meals at the close by street markets stalls, which had tasty […]

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  • Daily Summaries, Laos, Travel Journal

    Day 149 – Luang Prabang

    Museums and Mountains We checked out of Thatsaphone Guesthouse today and walked to the nearby Downtown Backpackers Hostel 2, which was a little out of the tourist strip. We had to walk through a street market, which takes up the entire street at night time. During the market is contained to the footpath. Today we […]

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  • Daily Summaries, Laos, Travel Journal

    Day 148 – Luang Prabang

    First day in Laos Today, we just spent the day relaxing and taking in the country that is Laos. The day was wasted, trying to work out what to do and where to stay. We ended up having lunch in the tourist strip at Cafe Croissant D’or and then dinner along the banks of the […]

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  • Daily Summaries, Laos, Travel Journal, Vietnam

    Day 147 – Dien Bein Phu to Luang Prabang, LAOS

    Land crossing to Laos Today, we checked out of Phuong Nam Hotel, and walked to the Dien Bein Phu Bus Station. We were running a little late, so we went straight to the station and got onto the waiting mini bus. We had purchased the tickets the night before from the Bus Station for 495,000 […]

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