No one I spoke to prior to leaving the UK had anything good to say about Vientiane. The sleepy capital of Laos seems a world away from the other metropolises of SE Asia. There’s enough to keep you occupied for a couple of days but […]
Vang Vieng is famous for two things: The beautiful scenery in which it resides, and ‘tubing’. Tubing involves renting a large rubber tube, being dropped upstream, and cruising back downriver to town stopping at various riverside bars to ensure you arrive home a lot merrier […]
A few more thoughts and tips on Luang Prabang Take it all in. Take time to wander the streets and take in the beauty that lines them. Get some souvenirs from the night market. The streets are lined with a huge selection of arts and […]
One of the alleged highlights of a visit to Luang Prabang is supposed to be an early rise to see the many monks of the town walk the streets at dawn to collect alms from the locals. They are given rice by local people who […]
Temples and monks aren’t the only thing on offer in Luang Prabang. Kouang Si is a stunning series of waterfalls just an hour long minibus ride out of town (organise through any tour operator – we paid about $6.50 each for the return travel). Once […]
Luang Prabang is a stunning place. Nowhere else on this trip have we visited a town so beautiful. I say town, though after travelling through Vietnam for a few weeks it felt like a tiny village (the same would be true for the rest of […]
After Halong Bay we had a few days in Hanoi before the New Years celebrations began in full. Everything was either busy and bustling, or already closed until after the Tet Holiday. We spent most of our time in the Old Quarter, just North of […]
A trip to Ha Long Bay is a must-do for any visitor to Vietnam. The huge landscpe of limestone mountains rising up from the sea is like nowhere else on Earth; truly one of our planet’s great spectacles. The best way to see the area […]
We had the best part of a full day left in Huê before our last sleeper train took us to Hanoi. After visiting the Mausoleums it was only right that we should also see where the Emperors spent most of their living time: The Imperial […]
We arrived in Huê after a stunning train ride from Da Nang. Huê was the capital city of Vietnam prior to Hanoi and was the last capital ruled by the emperors of the Nguyen dynasty. The city itself is centred around a huge walled and […]
