4 Thousands Islands ( Siphandone) The region is situated in the South of Laos, just before the Cambodian border. The Mekong River splits into smaller rivers and the islands are everywhere. Some Finnish people have sad that the region looks like a Finnish summer cabin place if you think that the river is a lake and that the coconut trees are pine trees! Anyway, the region is very beautiful and calm. There are 2 main islands: Don Det and Don Khone, we chose to s...

We stayed only one night in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. It was too hot to do anything! And also everything was so expensive! So we stayed in a Scandinavian Bakery all day, waiting to have our night bus to Pakse. We did a huge mistake when booking the bus ticket directly from the bus station. It would have been much cheaper to buy it from a guest house. Also the bus we booked was the worst of all! All the other buses were 2 floor buses and more modern. We re...

A French couple we met in Huoxay and again in Lang Parang travel by hitchhiking. So we wanted try also because the transportation is very expensive in Laos. You have to travel by bus or minivan, because there aren't any trains in Laos. Half of the country is full of mountains and hills. So we left in the morning and took a tuk tuk outside the town. Then we just waited. And after 2 hours, it was so hot and we started to get tired of waiting so we went to the bus s...

Luang Namtha We took our first local bus in Laos to Luang Namtha. It took us 3 hours but it was pretty horrible. The road was in very bad condition and it was a mountain road so the bus ride was like a ride in Disney. In the bus every Lao woman throw up all the way to Luang Namtha and in the end the bus was full of vomit! It was so disgusting! We were happy to change town after spending one week in Huaxay. Also, we couldn't wate to eat some western food; for d...

We arrived from Chiang Rai by bus to Chang Khong, a border village between Thailand and Laos, there's only the Mekong River between them. So we crossed the river by slow boat, in 5 minutes. It was easy to get the visa for Laos; we filled in the visa form and paid. For French citizens the visa is 30 dollars, and for the Finnish it's 35 dollars!! I think the most expensive was for Canadians, 43 dollars! We started to look for a guest house, because it was almost 5...