Luang Prabang Province

Off the beaten path in regal, colonial Laos

Like beautiful people, beautiful towns are always adored. While Laos as a whole is a poor Communist country, Luang Prabang glides along in a golden bubble of coolness, propelled by quaint French colonial architecture,...

Searching for the invisible lesbians

In Luang Prabang, the Peace Pagoda (also known as Phra That Khong Santi Chedi) contains murals with scenes of women servants in intimate embraces. (Nov. 8, 2008) Just the facts There are reportedly no women's bars in Laos, but...

Luang Prabang - A Place where Heaven meets Earth

Even though often referred to as the Land of a Million Elephants, Laos borrowed this title from the translation of Lane Xang - the kingdom that, over six hundred years ago, spread throughout present day Laos, southern China and...

Highly Annoyed With Gmail

You know, I never realized how much bandwidth gmail ate up until traveling in a country like Laos where bandwidth really is a premium. Good lord. I am highly annoyed. It takes forever for gmail to load here. Even when I use the...

A Case of the Lazies

You'll all have to excuse me as I've a pretty wonderful case of the lazies right now. Luang Prabang will do that to you. I've been intending all day to blog up an entry about the town, but it's just such a relaxing place that...

Indochina Collection

A quick photo medley from my trips to (on the way to) Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Well, I didn't really have anything from Vietnam to show because I was sick and didn't have a heart to take any photo, but there were some photos...

Leaving For Laos

Tomorrow I am off for Laos, or at the very least Chiang Rai, which is on the way to the Lao border. I'm going to take this part of the journey slow. There is no reason to rush. There is no reason to make a 1600 mile mad dash up...

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Luang Prabang City