Enjoy the sea: the air, the crabs, the fish, and the pepper.
Phnom Phen
We arrive in the capital on the 1st of March. It is the first real city after Chiang Mai 5 weeks earlier. Way bigger than the small Vientiane. You have all facilities, and even some towers hosting banks. The traffic…
Kratie & Kampong Cham
The bus leads us to Kratie, where we stay 2 nights. We rent a bicycle for the day. It is very nice to ride through the villages. The high temperature is quite exhausting though, and we have to pause many…
Organized scam in Lao-Cambodia border
In Don Det, Laos, we meet Samira from Iran. She is traveling for almost 5 months so far (Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Thailand). She is the first I met from Iran so far, and I tell her about how I liked…
Southern Laos
From the Boloven plateau to Champasak to the 4000 Islands
The Loop: a 500km motorbike journey in Central Laos
We learnt in our first bike trip that Chineese made bike are easier and cheaper to repair. In Thakek, we don’t have much choice anyway (apart the $35 a day 250cc Honda): the few bike shops only offer the Chinese…
Vientiane
Vientiane might be the most populated city in Lao, it remains quite a small town with less than 300 000 inhabitants. Some sights are interesting. Patuxai is a nice Lao version of the Paris “Arc de Triomphe”. The stupa “Pha That…
Party time and high society in Laos
In Luang Prabang, Utopia is a very nice relaxing bar, but only Falangs (white Foreigner) are coming there. As in many town or cities, everything must close at 23:30 sharp in LP, so the after party was in a bowling…
Splendid landscapes in Northern Laos
The mini-bus to Mong Khiaw is not as nice as the one we had from the border to Luang Nam Tha. After passing Oudoxai, the driver has to change the oil, and it takes him 1h to go back in…
Motorbike trip in Northern Laos
I arrive 10 min too late to cross the Thai-Lao after my bus Chiang-Rai to Chian Khong so I cross the Mekong on the 27th in the morning when the service opens at 8am. It goes fast on Thai side,…