Tuesday 9 October 2012

The Blond is going away: Why I won't go to Van Vieng

I have two simple answers to that:





At 2:47 here (experience? yeah, maybe. Culture??? yeah, right!)





And number two here:



Instead, after Luang Prabang, we will go north - where, some say, a true Laos can be found....

4 comments:

  1. Haha I love the first video! I think it would be challenge stay there more than one hour ;)

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  2. Such a shame that they managed to ruin that place. I was there in 1998 & 1999 and it was peaceful and beautiful. I think there were like three guest houses there at the time, and the people staying in them all seemed really nice. And it was dead cheap: we paid the equivalent of ONE pound for a room for two people in a VERY friendly place.

    Oh well. Nothing lasts forever, eh? Overall Laos is still great, though - everyone who's been there seems to love it.

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  3. These things happen to wonderful places - unfortunately. First someone writes about some remote, beautiful place, then everyone wants to go there, the locals are turning the area into a money making machine and this leads to a total disaster. Luckily, there are a lot of remote and quiet places to visit.

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