Greetings from a very small, sleepy river town called Champasak. I’ve covered a heck of a lot of ground in the last 12 hours, which you can see on the map on my homepage! Last night, of course, I was in Vientiane, about 850km to the north, where I boarded my so-called “VIP Sleeper Bus.” […]
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By the time yesterday morning rolled around, I was so sick and tired of Vang Vieng I wanted to get the hell out of there pronto! Unfortunately, sleeping was one of my priorities, having had several sleepless nights in the past few days, so I slept past the first bus departure of the day. The […]
Well, I can’t say that I wasn’t warned. L0nely Planet flat-out states it in their text. Vang Vieng is, at best, backpacker hell! A small little town that seems to exist solely for tourism and nothing else. So what is to draw people here, you may ask? Well, the surrounding karst scenery. But unlike Yangshuo, […]
Greetings from Jinghong (Geeng-hawng), capital of the Xishuangbanna (Shee-shwaung-baw-naw) minority region of China’s Yunnan province. It’s quite interesting because this town feels a heck of a lot more like Southeast Asia than it does China! I here this morning after a very nice 10 hour journey on a Chinese sleeper bus! Now just what is […]
Greetings from Kunming (koon-meeng), where I have arrived after a lengthy 17.5 hour train journey from Guilin. I’m actually heading straight on to Jinghong, capital of the Xishuangbanna Autonomous Region (which is another minority heavy region and happens to border Laos, where I’m eventually heading) on a sleeper bus tonight. But the train was actually […]
Sanjiang (saun-jiaung) is the capital of the Dong Minority Autonomous County and as a bus bearing my new French traveling companion Lori and I rolled into town we hit a police checkpoint. The fellow manning the doors and the fares as new arrivals flagged us down hopped out and registered our bus in the log […]
Greetings from quite literally the middle of nowhere! I’m actually near the small village of Dazhai, which I had my first ever trek in getting to! After my post yesterday morning I met up with the Quebecois fellow (Guillaume), as well as our new French (Lori) and Chinese (Neo) friends and the four of us […]
Greetings from the little minority village of Ping’An (peeng-awn), nestled high in the hills, surrounded in every possible direction by absolutely stunning rice terraces named “The Dragon’s Backbone.” There is no road or vehicle that comes directly here. This was the culmination of two bus rides through China’s back country. First to a town called […]