Category Archives: Travel

We arrived in Vientiane yesterday evening, not aboard the promised ATR-72 aircraft, but aboard an old Russian Y7-100C plane. It was quite an interesting experience, but made the journey OK. Vientiane has turned out to be predictably disappointing after Luang … Continue reading →

It’s night-time again and we’ve just had dinner, so here’s a quick update. Incidentally, if some of the words in this e-mail have too many e’s in them, it’s because my keyboard has a dodgy ‘e’ key that keeps sticking. … Continue reading →

ell, we’re still in Luang Prabang and are back in the same internet cafe after an attempt to try one that’s just 200 kip per minute. This one is 300 kip per minute, but worth the extra money since we … Continue reading →

irst of all, let me say how unbelievably slow Internet access is in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, or Lao PDR as it’s known in it’s short form. It’s as if each packet is being transported across the Mekong River … Continue reading →

Well, after two days in the cargo hold of a big dirty boat, we have arrived in Luang Prabang. After we last wrote, we took a bus to Chiang Khong at Thailand’s border with Laos. The bus ride was nice … Continue reading →