There is grandeur in this view of life… and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (Charles Darwin) Darwin would doubtlessly revisit...
Many travellers are surprised to find that Vang Vieng, the tourist hotspot and stop-off town on the way from Vientiane to Luang Prabang, is visually spectacular. The party scene, which once made the town’s reputation, has died down in recent years, and many of the riverside bars and grubby...
Something is happening on the banks of the Mekong in Vientiane – a joyful kind of energy building behind a half-empty commercial development near the city centre. On any given night, you could drive right past it and not notice the flickering lights, wonder about the sauntering figures or clock...
Sally Pryor tries out Crowne Plaza – the latest luxury hotel to arrive in Vientiane – and is mightily impressed. It’s a muggy and oppressively hot Saturday afternoon in Vientiane, but in the hushed, carpeted corridors of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, there’s no weather at all. Nor are...
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