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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:39 am Post subject: Laos Vacation Report :D |
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| I find Laos very agreeable. I got a travelers bug right away but other than that, itrs really nice. Its rough some places but I'm at a place called Vieng Vang and is much like paradise. Its really sweet. I think I'll go native. |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:59 am Post subject: |
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| I'll be there this winter. Don't mess up the joint. |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| I'll be there this winter as well. Just booked my flight to Bangkok today. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Laos Vacation Report :D |
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| dulouz wrote: |
| I find Laos very agreeable. I got a travelers bug right away but other than that, itrs really nice. Its rough some places but I'm at a place called Vieng Vang and is much like paradise. Its really sweet. I think I'll go native. |
travelers bug? |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:22 am Post subject: |
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Vang Vieng is first class. Veintiane and Luang Prabang are two of the best places I've ever been. Go down to Pakse and check out Wat Phu, the Bolaven Plateu and Si Phan Don.
I loved Laos. I desperately want to go back. |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:29 am Post subject: Re: Laos Vacation Report :D |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| dulouz wrote: |
| I find Laos very agreeable. I got a travelers bug right away but other than that, itrs really nice. Its rough some places but I'm at a place called Vieng Vang and is much like paradise. Its really sweet. I think I'll go native. |
travelers bug? |
The runs, I assume. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:07 am Post subject: |
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Laotians are that much more chilled, friendly and easy going than their neighbors. Laos is great. And oh so cheap.
Kong island in Si Phan don is the friendliest place I've ever been in my life. Everyone without exception said hello, it was almost tiring.
The "roads" there were nightmarish back in 2002/3 though. |
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deessell
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Don't forget to hire a scooter and check out the thousand islands down south. Hardly anyone goes south and it's magical. Especially with the very cheap local smoke.  |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:40 am Post subject: |
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I'm really close to being away ferom Korea for good. This is a good place to land. Its terribly beautiful.
Tavelers bug = local flu/cold. I get it at every new place. I spend a day in bed.
The men here are real men. They have a big house and they farm and keep animals for long term savings. They feed and house the family and the women here are really fertile. There are kids everywhere.
So is cow dung. Cow flops everywhere. I don't think thats good. The footwear is bad. There is alot of foot discomfort here. The SE Asians bow to the porcelin tile good. These places can be dirty but when you are on the tile, its heaven. Its a saintly feeling. I'd like my clogs back. Flip flops suck.
I can be here with a good kayak and wood tools to make garden equipment/hydro rigs from bamboo. I need a scooter and the roads are really really bad. You'd get popular if you fixed the road.
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Yea I'm back here and I think I'm the only American again. Its funny that the most popular TV-cafes show "Friends". Really, there are 3 cafes very close together and they are frequently filled all day. They all show Friends at the same time. You drag you'r sorry behind from one place to another and watch Friends for 13-15 hours a day if you want. The really surprising thins is that its full of Europeans. Where's the culture? Don't they have any good DVDs they bring from Paris or Geneva? I forced them to watch an European art film but they all got up and left to watch "Duce Bigelow". |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| dulouz wrote: |
The men here are real men. They have a big house and they farm and keep animals for long term savings. They feed and house the family and the women here are really fertile. There are kids everywhere.
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You know, passing through dirt-poor lowland Laos and Hmong villages, I thought the exact same about the men. The men in Laos are real men. They're as poor as the poorest Khmer in Cambodia, but don't have that look of desperation and hopelessness. They look like hard, headstrong men.
I loved Laos, I really did. There's really nothing there, but it's great and the people are so approachable compared to other Asian countries. Vientiane and Louang Prabang are very touristy and not typical towns in Laos, but they're both very nice, and relaxing places. Even the tourism in Laos, something I normally shun away from, seems to fit the place. The tourists are mostly backpackers, low-key, low-maintenance travelers, who overall, seem to enhance the place rather than take away from it. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Good to hear. I have wanted to visit Laos for several years, but never did so. Thailand is great, and VN has some good points, and I've heard good and bad about Cambodia, as well as Myanmar, but next time, if there be one, in that ballpark of SE Asis Lao sounds like the place to see.
How long for visa? From BKK I guess a few days? Take a plane or go on a long bus ride? What's that town in Thailand near Vientiane, connected by the "friendship bridge?"
Udon Thani perhaps? |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
How long for visa? From BKK I guess a few days? Take a plane or go on a long bus ride? What's that town in Thailand near Vientiane, connected by the "friendship bridge?"
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There are a quite a few borderpoints from Thailand, and seemingly more opening up all the time. Some need visas, some don't. I crossed the very popular point at the "Friendship Bridge" between Nong Khai (12 hour train ride north of Bangkok) and Vientiane. Didn't need a visa ahead of time ($30USD for 14-day visa), and no major hassles at the border, just a bit of a wait and a bit of nickeling and diming along the way. As far as land crossings between developing countries goes, it was very easy to cross. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Cool. Keep us posted on you travels. |
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