Southeast Asia Trip — We entered Laos from Hue, Vietnam on 1 December 2022 and stayed in Laos for five weeks before leaving for Thailand on 6 January 2023. We fell completely in love with Laos and would like to share some of the highlights here again. 1 December, entry to Laos from Hue, Vietnam From Hue, Vietnam, we travelled by bus…

Southeast Asia Travel — Since entering the country on 1 December, we have stayed in Laos for about five weeks. Finally, yesterday, we left Laos and entered Thailand. There are several border crossing points between Laos and Thailand, but this time we passed through a minor checkpoint for foreign travellers, Park San (Laos) …

Southeast Asia Trip — On New Year’s Eve, we travelled from Oudomxai (Muang Xai) to Vang Vieng on the high-speed train of the Lao-China Railway. The Lao-China Railway has just opened in December 2021. We previously took a regular train on this railway from Vientiane to Luang Prabang. How to take the train from Vientiane to Luang Prabang There are now three daily trains from Vientiane to Luang Prabang on the Laos-China Railway. We took the slightly slower…maiandchristravel.com

Travelling in Southeast Asia — In a previous post, I wrote about going from Muang Sing to Muang Long, and then, we were planning to go down the Mekong River to hang out. This plan didn’t work at the early stage because there was no transport to Muang Long. We had to change our plans…

Travelling in Southeast Asia — Funny enough, today is our first day of rain in Laos. We entered this country on December 1, 2022, and we didn’t have rain until yesterday. It may be not funny because it’s a dry season now. Since this morning, it has been pouring rain. If not, we were planning…

Travel blog in Southeast Asia — We are on a year trip now. We left home in Canada on September 14, 2022, and travelled to England, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Japan, Vietnam and Laos where we are now. Mai and Chris Travel Japanese & British Backpackersmaiandchristravel.com We entered the south part of Laos on December 1 from Vietnam and slowly travelled to the north. At…