Laos
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Ingredients around the world - Bamboo Shoots
Bamboo shoots are a staple ingredient in Asia. The fastest growing grass in the world, used in numerous soups and as a standalone vegetable. Bamboo, with all...
Sharing the Worlds Local Food: Book Launch
We just launched our new book "Sharing the World's Local Food and held a book launch in The ArtHouse gallery in central Bournemouth to see the book released...
North Cambodia Laos Border
An early start in Kratie to begin our journey to Champasak in Laos via the north Cambodia Laos border crossing. With the market so easily accessible I ran to...
How to eat Laos Sticky Rice
Glutinous or sticky rice is the staple food of Laos. As the vast majority of people live in the country, away from towns and infrastructure community and focus...
7 Funny Signs
We found 7 funny signs and a few more that were a bit more lewd. We just had to share them once I had picked them from the archive! There is nothing like...
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Video Playlist of Temples Around the World
Click on the videos to show just some of the temples we experienced around the world. Temples are fascinating pieces of artwork that are often core...
Laos to Thailand by boat
Back to Luang Prabang we opted to try out a hostel recommended to us by a couple that we had met on the trek, Fi and Dan. This was better value. 60,000kip for...
Learning to be a Mahout
We were picked up promptly from our hostel and transported to the Elephant Camp site, up for learning to be a Mahout - a traditional Laos elephant tamer and...
Hanging out in Luang Prabang
A long hot and slow ride back to Luang Prabang from Nong Kiow. It only took 5 hours but we needed a while just hanging out in Luang Prabang after what we had...
Bamboo School Building in Hatsa
Unbeknownst to us at the time we approached a sandy bank on the brown Nam Ou river and stuttered to a halt. This was it our village home for 3 weeks. We...
Laos Villages by Boat
We met with Jan, iced coffee in hand. Laura had gone to the loo and claimed that she needed to find her boyfriend for some cash when both groups intersected...
A World Apart in Vientiene
We drank a few parting iced coffees with our new friends, discussing future adventures together for 40 minutes before picking up 60,000 kip tickets to the...
Thang Beng to Vinh
Oh what it is like crossing from Laos to Vietnam using Route 8 from Thang Beng to Vinh (Route 8 turn-off on north south route 13 in Laos). I picked up a...
Making the most of Thakhek
It was chucking it down when we arrived at 11:30pm. Only very seedy motels lined the road leading up to the bus station so we realised that we would have to...
Attempting to travel north: Salavan
After a much shorter journey than anticipated our bus pulled into a bus station 2km away from the centre of town. We began to walk down the side of the road,...
Tadlo Waterfalls and a Festival
We rattled along the newly paved road under black threatening cloud, closed in by mountains on all sides, dense and tropical. A few more people were crammed in...
Cycling in Champasak
So, $17 for a combined minivan and bus ticket to Champasak seemed like an expensive price to us. We were due to be entering Laos, which was supposed to be the...