Discover Laos ( continued)

The second day we had breakfast at a Vietnamese pho inn. Its sign is in Vietnamse and many Viet people came to eat here. After the delicious Vietnamese typical dish, we continue our travel on a special car. It is plain red and so risky to travel on that our whole party just secretly pray for a safe journey. Due to the bad car we couldn’t sleep during our long drive to Vientien. The first day in Vientien, we decided to take massage for refreshing ourselves. While the guys had their body massaged, the girls did their feet. One hour later everyone felt more healthy and ready for an overnight trip. Our car first stopped the Don Chan Palace Hotel but found that not so many cars parked, so we made our way to the Novotel Hotel with an eye chatching bar called Future bar. The atmosphere inside was so exciting with beautiful Thai music on. This is because Thailand has such a deep influence on Laos’s culture from arts, architecture through religion. Gold lacquered temples and pagodas are common sights in Laos and Thai movies are also very popular here. The later it got the more crowded the bar was. At the bar, charming Laotian girls was sitting , from time to time dash their eyes to find a partner. We had a good time there until one hour in the morning. We had to save the energy for the next day’s visit around Vientien and decided to leave rather early. The next day, we visited some main attractions in the city which are covered in every Vientien tour. We took some photos of Vientien streets. They look alike streets in Hanoi( you can see from the picture above). There is little traffic on the street and a feel of tranquility hanging over the city. We left Vientien for Vang Vieng in the afternoon.

Discover Laos

I had a memorable and fascinating trip to Lao one month ago. Ten people of us, who knew one another through a travel forum decided to realize our desire to visit Laos. We were very eager and well-prepared for the trip. It was an 6-day unguided tour of major destination in Laos including Vientiene, Xieng Khouang and Luang Prabang. We set off at seven o’clock on October, 8th in Hanoi each bringing load of necessary belongings and food. When leaving Hanoi, everyone in our party were a little bit nervous, especially girls since this was the first time they come to another countries in the same region. Traveling to Laos is somehow an amazing idea as in general Vietnamese people know little about this neighboring country. We spent the whole night on the car heading for Vientian the first destination of our itinerary. We came to Vientian in the afternoon of the next day, Thursday. On the way to our hotel by tuk-tuk we came across a Vietnamese girl called My carrying a 30 kilo back-pack yet smiling all the time. She speak Laotian fluently with a perfect accent. Our whole party attacking her with questions all the way to the hotel. She make the girls of our party envious of her tattoos and earings on her nose or tip of her tongue. They dreamed of having such accessories someday to look real trendy and Westerner-like.

The tuk-tuk took us to the Youth Inn hotel where a friend of mine recommended.
It is located in the centre of the capital, very near the river Mekong and the Street Night Market is just a stone’s throw away. The Street Night Market is similar to the one stretching through Ngang Street and Dao Street in Hanoi. It run along the peaceful Mekong, which we can see Thailand on the other bank. Luckily, we visited Vientien on the occasion of the Buddha parade and and boat racing. The riverside area and all the stalled inside the market were glamorously decorated making Vientien more lively. And more and more Laotian streaming to the market and guys in our party have a perfect chance to watch beautiful Laotian girls. They all have healty dark complexion and big round eyes, gentle tiny nose that are typical of Laotian…..( to be continued)