http://www.odyssei.com Laos, Photoarticles - lately on the site en-us Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:32:45 +0200 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:32:45 +0200 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13280.html We meet up at 6am to go get tickets for the bus at 9.30, for Ban Don Chai, a tiny village that acts as the jumping off point for the Gibbons experience. While me and Jim are waiting for the ticket booth to open we're joined by Graham and Rob who are a [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13280.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13277.html Helen and I only stay in Luang Prabang for the night and we manage to get about 4 different truths of bus times and stations for travelling on to Luang Nam Tha. Seems like I'm back in Thailand already!! In the end we make our own judgement and [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13277.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13275.html I arrive up in Vang Vieng and all is seeming very similar from 6 months ago when I was here. That is until I step on to main street and the 1st thing that hits me is there are no open sewers!! There seems to be more and more cafes and less places [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13275.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13272.html I pick up my Honda Baja 250 and get set to head to Tha Kaek from Vientianne for the first leg. I remember the bus took 6 hours but didn't realise it was just short of 400km. 2km after getting the bike the gears are buggared - it will change up but not [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13272.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13270.html Well, what can I say about my second time in Vientianne? It hasn't changed much except there are about 3000 more tourists than last July. The tuk tuk drivers are still offering you "something" which usually means weed, women or anything stro [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13270.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13221.html So we leave Pakse (the blog is still under review by the Laos government), and get a local bus for a couple of hours. By local I mean a large pickup truck filled with chickens, bags of rice and anyhting else the locals get their hands on in the market. Th [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13221.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13220.html We leave Emmet for his solo adventures in Vientiane while Phil, Paddy, Blair and myself head off to "Thats Crap" to do whats become known as the loop. Basically its hire some decent scrambler bikes and head off into the unknown Laos countryside. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13220.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13218.html We drag our selves away from Vang Vieng only cos we want to get our Cambodia visas and away before the weekend is out. Vientiane doesn't have a city feel but more of a big town. Again we keep meeting people we've met along the way. We meet Sarah a [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13218.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13216.html Vang Vieng - where to start?! This place is just one street full of madness. along the way there is bars blaring out Friends so we limited our choice to ones that let you choose what to watch. the menus are interesting. You get your run of the mill me [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13216.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13214.html We reckon if we do a different route from everyone from the slow boat we might get to see some new faces. So we're packed up and on the road again down the infamous route 13. It used to be bad for buses getting hijacked by bandits and ifyour driver is [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-article/13214.html