Category Archives: Laos

A Country of Contrasts

After the delights of Four Thousand Islands, our next few stops were quite a contrast – both to the islands and to each other. After an overnight stop in Tha Khaek, we arrived in the capital, Vientiane. Being about the size of Bristol, it is quite a small city to be capital; but unlike Bristol […]

An Introduction to Laos

After three weeks in Cambodia, we headed north across the only land border with Laos. The crossing was relatively straightforward, if a little slow; but what happened next was not a great introduction to the country. We saw everyone from our minibus get off and head for two local islands, but we were told to […]