Laos

In the mighty Jungle of Lao you can play Tarzan and Jane by going on the Gibbon Experience, zip-line through the dense bamboo forest, enjoy the most awesome views and sleep in treehouses up to 60 meters above the ground. They call the entire experience “The Gibbon Experience” and is not what we would consider […]

While travelling through South East Asia, we passed so many rice fields. We always watched people wearing traditional hats, standing knee-deep in the water and planting one rice plant after the other. As planting and harvesting rice plays a crucial role for the economy and culture in South East Asia, we were eager to learn […]

Originally, we wanted to go to Nong Kiaw from Luang Prabang to do some trekking and visit traditional villages. As we did the Gibbon Experience spontaneously, we ran out of time and were, therefore, looking for a comparable experience around Luang Prabang. We found it with the “Hmong and Khmu Village Trek” with Green Discovery […]

Luang Prabang is located in the north of Laos, about 180 kilometers from Vang Vieng and 340 kilometers from the capital of Laos – Vientiane. Luang Prabang features one of the two international airports or Laos (the other one being located in Vientiane), so it can easily be reached from all over Asia. It can […]

Our first stop in Laos was Vang Vieng. We flew into Vientiane, where we took a minibus to Vang Vieng. We took the bus by the company Malany which we had pre-booked online on baolau.com. It cost 6 USD per person. We do highly recommend pre-booking this bus as it was fully booked when we […]