Vientiane

Hotel-  Sengtawan Riverside Hotel-Good hotel with view of the Mekong and a nice rooftop bar.
Everyone told me that a day is enough in this capital city of Laos. I will strongly disagree with this. This city has a long way to go in terms of what we would think as a good capital, but don’t we travel to places because they are different. Isn’t this what we do in life? Isn’t life about seeing new things? You can quite easily bike around this city in just a few hours, but there are so many little nooks and crannies to be explored here that it is endless.

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Day 1-Bicycle around the city to see the many different monuments and Cope Center(these are many victims of land mines all over Laos and they already started accepting other disabled people). I also took a quick jaunt to the international school which seems to be a good fit for me. The center arch is a throwback to the Arc d’ Triumph in Paris and you can get a good view of the city from here….

Gallery:

Day 2- 30 km Bike into villages and on muddy trails in the rain. If that was not enough, I decided to also Kayak 16 km down the Mekong River back to Vientiane. The guy I was with was awesome, his name was Noy and was quite the guide and a drinker. He showed me around everywhere, took me to beer and restaurant gardens and was there to lend a helping hand. This was a difficult day to get pics because it literally rained the whole day while I was biking and I had a good plant off my bike after going through some muddy puddles. But spirits were kept high to accomplish this feat that I wanted

Day 3- Cooking Class!!! Why wouldn’t I end this portion of my year off with a cooking class(althought I took one in Singapore). The day was brilliant with a market tour as well as joining two good friends for this class. The market here was good where I actually got time to see how the people function and photograph them. It is brilliant the way they do things as you can see from the pictures:

Luang Prabang and surrounding villages/countryside

 

The people and life of Laos (a must see)