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June 4th, 2009 | Tags: Bia Hoi, Bia Hoi Bar Crawl, Bus trips, Democracy Hotel, Halong Bay, Halong City, Hanoi, Hanoi Drinking, Hanoi Hilton, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Lao Prison, Laos, Le Mat, Linh Linh Restaurant, Pepperonis Cafe Hanoi, Snake Village, Solice Nightclub, The Old Quarter, Vientianne, Vietnam Visa | Category: Asia Trips, Cycling, Laos, Sporting Trips, Vietnam | Comments Off

A trip traveling any Asian countries would not be complete without paying a visit to one or more of the fantastic temples, pagodas and other religious monuments that they contain.  I have recently traveled Southeast Asia and marveled at The Batu Caves in Malaysia and some of the countries Buddhist monasteries.  I have also wandered [...]

June 4th, 2009 | Tags: Angkor Wat, Asia, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Pagodas, Planning, Temples, Thailand, The Grand Palace, Vietnam | Category: Asia Trips, Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Planning, Thailand, Vietnam, World Travel | Comments (1)

We arrived in Vang Vieng after three days of intensive cycling through the mountains, so we were keen to have some fun relaxing in the tourist hot spot.  It was a tiny village consisting of bars, restaurants and guesthouses.  All the bars played Friends episodes and sitting at any one of the restaurants, you could hear [...]

May 13th, 2009 | Tags: Bucket Bar, Cycle Asia, Fun activities in Laos, Q Bar, Things to do in Laos, Tubing, Vang Vieng, Vientiane | Category: Asia Trips, Cycling, Laos, Sporting Trips | Comments (3)

Many travellers doing Southeast asia tours are travelling through Laos and then heading to Vientam from there.  The most popular method being via bus to Hanoi.  This requires being issued with a Vietnam visa from the Vientam Embassy in Vientiane.  The following points are useful information regarding the visas:

Tourist Visas are valid for 30 days, [...]

May 6th, 2009 | Tags: laos to vietnam visa, vientam embassy, vientam visas, vietnam visa vientiane, Visa | Category: Asia Trips, Laos, Planning, Site Notices, Vietnam | Leave a comment

Many travellers are visiting the small town of Vang Vieng to frequent in the popular activity of tubing down the Nam Song river.  Travellers ejoy floating down the river in tractor wheel inner tubes, getting drunk moving from bar to bar.  There are about six bars and each bar has its own rope swing that [...]

May 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Laos Attractions, Tubing, Vang Vieng | Category: Asia Trips, Laos | Leave a comment

May 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Adventure Sports, Bangkok, Bicycle, Cycle Asia, Cycling, Khao San Road, Kiuakacham, Ku Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng, Mountainous Laos, Old City Guesthouse, Phitsanulok, Rural Loas, Southeast Asia, Sukhothai, The Songkran Festival, Things To Do, Uttaradit, Vang Vieng | Category: Asia Trips, Cycling, Laos, Sporting Trips, Thailand | Comments (2)

Laos is becoming an increasingly popular place to travel in Southeast Asia and many travellers who want to see the country in a short time frame are choosing to travel Laos by entering the country from Northern Thailand by catching a ferry from Chiang Khong and entering Huay Xai in Laos.  They then can catch [...]

May 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Kuang Si Waterfall, Laos, Laos nAttractions, Things To Do Luang Prabang. Things To See Lunag Prabang | Category: Asia Trips, Laos, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The route has been planned, the kit not quite organised and the first aid kits filled to the brim with a combination of mosquito spray, dissentry medication and malaria tablets… what a treat!
So with slightly less than two weeks left before embarking upon this epic adventure, it seems like an apt time to look in [...]

March 20th, 2009 | Tags: Adventure, Asia, Cambodia, Camp Quality, Charity, Cycle Asia, Cycling, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam | Category: Adventure Sport, Asia Trips, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Volunteering | Comments (1)