Category Archives: Laos
Thai / Lao Dinner
We had our first of several travel theme dinner nights last night with Charles, Lisa & Chris & it went fairly well, would have been better if the Mazda hadn’t of died, but, such is life. Dinner consisted of a … Continue reading
ASL Story – Laos
Tonight I have to sign a story in ASL, I have chosen “The Finger” story & how I nearly lost the top joint on my middle finger (left hand) after an unfortunate accident in Laos, when we were trekking in … Continue reading
10,465,000
So after Buddah Park, we headed back through the markets again to take a look at the cameras that we had seen earlier in the day, we didn’t think that we would buy a camera for Geoff, but there was … Continue reading
Buddah Park
We had a fantastic day today. One of the sights that we wanted to see was Buddah Park, here in Vientiane. At first we didn’t know where it was, we had a postcard of the place, but we couldn’t find … Continue reading
Hospital in Laos
On the plus side, my visit was not due to an anaphylactic reaction, it was my finger, from the jungle trek. Keo had originally told us that the hospital was closed, but upon arriving in Luang Nam Tha we discovered … Continue reading
3 day Jungle Trek – Day Three
The last day, was a bit like day 2, lots of rain & slippery mud to walk through. I neglected to mention that we saw a few water buffalo the day before & we saw even more on the 3rd … Continue reading
The Finger
We had been walking through the jungle for a couple of days & with all the mud & everyone (yes, mostly me) slipping about the walking was taking a little longer as we all tried to be careful not to … Continue reading
3 day Jungle Trek – Day Two
Day Two was a little different to the first one as far as terrain went. Day one was mostly up-hill, day two was a lot of down-hill, which was made more interesting by a typical jungle style rain. I have … Continue reading
3 day Jungle Trek – Day One
Wow, what a trip. I decided to do this post in sections – day by day to make it a little easier to read (hopefully)….. Day One We were told the night before that we needed to get to the … Continue reading
Bye China
Wow, what an interesting couple of days we have had. Yesterday we decided that we were finished with Kunming & would catch a late sleeper bus to Jinghong. We asked at reception at our hostel (Cloudland) how long the trip … Continue reading