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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. […]

Today’s post is all about the campsites we stayed at on our summer rafting trip down the Sayan Oka River, of which there are many and in different flavors, but which all turned out to be decent. Even though there was a pretty heavy stream of rafting tourists (every day we crossed paths with one, […]

In Luang Prabang (Luang Phabang) in Laos, the Kuang Si Falls should be first on any visiting tourist’s itinerary! It’s an utterly unique-looking cascade of waterfalls and travertine terraces. Here’s the main waterfall (50+m high) -> And the terraces farther downstream: You can even swim: