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We arrived in Lao Cai (a border crossing point into China) at 5:30am and needed to find a mini-bus to take us 1 hour up into the hills to…
We arrived in Lao Cai (a border crossing point into China) at 5:30am and needed to find a mini-bus to take us 1 hour up into the hills to…
Saturday was my birthday and we had discussed no presents. We are coming back to NZ in early June and have enough stuff already to repatriate. So it was…
We decided a trip to Vietnam was a good idea and booked some flights. Having made that commitment we then realised we were smack in the middle of 2 days…
Richard and Brenda, friends from NZ, came to stay for the 3 days of the celebrations as part of their SE Asian holiday. As we don’t have a car we…
Every year the 13th – 15th of April are the Lao New Year holiday. Coming from a country where ‘official’ holidays are determined more than 10 days in advance we…
One of the biggest parties in the Buddhist Calendar in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, are the three days that mark the end of the old year, the day of no…