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On the main street of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, stands this rather confident-looking structure. What’s more… it’s of a somewhat unusual design for Southeast Asia: It’s called Patuxai, and it turns out it’s an “Arc de Triomphe”. But that figures, since Laos is a former French colony (and you still quite often see and […]

ສະບາຍດີທຸກຄົນ! Let me continue my tourism tales in and around Vientiane – the capital of Laos. Located 25km from the city center by road (15km as the crow flies) is a rather curious little place that goes by the name of Buddha Park. Here, on a relatively small patch of land (180x100m), stand around two […]

Ooh – déjà vu! These scenes out the window sure looked familiar – but of course they did: I was only here last month!… And here are some of our guests flying in!…

With our tourist weekend in Luang Prabang over, it was time to get down to business. The next couple of days in Vientiane were pretty much all work, work, work (meetings, introductions, handshakes, negotiations, and so on – business as usual), but we still had some time left over for sightseeing: perfect! And the highlight, […]

Now that we’ve covered the campsites, it’s onward and downstream on the Sayan Oka River!… In places, the beauty all around us was simply off the charts:

ສະບາຍດີ folks! Back to Laos – for a continuation of my tales (and pics) from the Luang Prabang side… Curiously, the city is the country’s alternative capital (the government hopped back and forth between Vientiane and Luang Prabang several times), which is why traces of investment in urban infrastructure from days of yore remain here. […]