Vientiane — the still sleepy capital on the banks of the Mekong River...
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The capital of Laos is booming. Driven by rising foreign investment, plenty of foreign aid workers and a more urbane youth, change is coming as quickly as in any city in Asia. However, even with all this dynamism you won’t ......
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The slowly crumbling colonial-era buildings of Savannakhet serve as reminders of the importance the French attached to what was their largest trading and administrative centre south of Vientiane. These days the city’s river­side ......
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The sleepy provincial capital of Khammuan province, Tha Khaek lies across the Mekong River from the bustling Thai town of Nakhon Phanom. While Tha Khaek is certainly not the most exciting town in Laos, it is a good deal more ......
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Founded by the French in 1905 as an administrative outpost, Pakse sits at the confluence of the Mekong River and the Se Don (Don River) and is the capital of Champasak Province. The town has grown quickly since the Lao-Japanese ......
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Colour is the first of Luang Prabang’s virtues to greet travellers. Pearly frangipanis with their heady perfume, banks of overgrown trees peppered with scarlet flowers, the burnt sienna robes of hundreds of monks and their ......
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That is the image of young women sitting by looms with colorful pieces of brocade decorated with designs of fThe capital of the province, Luang Nam Tha is a quiet, ordered town where a grid pattern of streets reveals ever-so-quietly ......
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