Aaron's Worldwide Adventures
I don’t even know how I can begin to sum up just how wonderful the past few days have felt, as I got some well needed rest & relaxation. In Lonely Planet’s description of Si Phan Don (literally, 4,000 islands), they say that there must be some rule that the further south in Laos you […]
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.” […]
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, […]
This was the day that would never end. It began early in Luang Nam Tha, as I arose at 7:15 this morning, hell bent on getting a bus ticket to Luang Prabang. Of course, the bus station was now 6km from town, essentially forcing you to buy a ticket through an agency (one must wonder […]
Greetings from the serene world that is the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR, or Laos as it’s most commonly known!). This is my first time returning to a place I’ve already been to and I must say, it’s quite bizarre. I only have vague memories of my days spent in Luang Nam Tha (Lou-ang […]
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 […]