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[Travel] Panorama of Laos

Below is a list of Panoramic photography captured from the trip to Laos.

Panoramic view from The Patuxay, Vientiane, Laos.

Panoramic view overlooking the Mekong River from Laos.

Panoramic view from Wat Chom Si, Luang Prabang, Laos.

Panoramic view from The Buddha Park, Laos.

Panoramic view inside the Laos’ airport departure hall.

[Travel] Part 4 of 6, Laos – The Forgotten Land

Welcome to Luang Prabang

After enduring more than 12 hours of ass-pained ride inside the “VIP” bus from Vientiane, we finally reached the once-glorious capital of Laos. If you reach here the first time, try catching up on the log on the first part to Laos.

I can’t really describe what is my feeling on this 12-hours ride inside the bus. First time experience, and from whatsoever blog that you can read from the internet can’t justify the experience, really. Most of the information that I have gotten…

• It’s a long ride – true
• It’ll be a winding road all along the way – true
• You won’t have a good sleep – agree

Upon waking up from those continous sleep-wake-sleep-wake routine inside the bus, I realized that we actually passing through mountains that is paved on a 2-lane road.

Seems like a lot of forest along the way are truncated. Can’t take a really detailed picture at the moment as I’m still pretty dizzy but it’s really a sore sight though.

I’m pretty sure most of us felt the same inside the bus

And here we are, finally on the bus terminal in Luang Prabang, which you can extend your trip, and take a bus to Vietnam or even China! (If you want)

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[Travel] Part 2 of 6, Laos – The Forgotten Land

This is a continuation for the travel log to Laos, if you missed the first part, read it here.

To travel into this place during the month of April – May really needs a lot of courage, unless you are those kind that have no problem in sleeping beyond the temperature of 35 degrees at night. It wasn’t really fun. really. It seemed the heat only start to wore off around 5 AM in the morning where the air conditioner starts to be effective during that time.

A look from the second floor balcony of the guest house.

A late afternoon overseeing the Mekong river.

There were 4 main places that we went during the second day of trip namely:

• Patuxay
• Pha That Luang
• Papaya Spa
• Night market

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[Travel] Part 1 of 6, Laos – The Forgotten Land

It might not ring a bell to a lot of casual holiday makers if we tell them to pay a visit to Laos. As odd as it seems, it was an unforgettable experience (mostly good ones) that both of me and Canny had last May. I can really agree with Wikitravel’s article that Thailand are often associated with the Land of Smiles, while Laos, as a country situated right in the middle of the Asia continent with no direct access to the sea except the mighty Mekong river, it is easily known as the Land of the forgotten.

This will be a 6-part travel-log to two of the most developed city in Laos, namely Vientiane and Luang Prabang.Though at times you might find me exaggerating some of the facts, but you have to really try it out yourself one day. Although we have been informed that the best period to visit this place is during the year end, which is around the month of November to January, we chose May instead. What happened then? It was almost 40 degrees Celsius everyday in our trip! I swear my skins are all boiling/baked. It is really hard to justify the amount of heat we went through from the pictures of this travel-log. It’s something that you need to try at least once, if you curious. But all is good, as what I read from other blog/sites, Laos has a very chilly weather during November to January, which would be a good reason to pay a visit to this country again.

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[Photography] Faces of Taipei

Below will be a collection of pictures taken around the Taipei city in Taiwan. Though there might be some mixture of pictures taken out of the city center.

There is 69 pictures in total.

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