Laos forum

Yoz

I could answer you in great detail, but why should I spend MY time helping you if you can't even help yourself?

Best suggestion is for you to put together 3 different (possible) itineraries:

1. traversing Laos but focussing on the south,

2. traversing Laos but focussing on the north, and

3. traversing Laos but focussing on both the north AND Yunnan (China).

In so doing, you'd be listing the places you want to visit, the number of days for each, your method of transport.

Once you've done something for yourself, post it here on Travelfish and I'm sure you'll get feedback to assist.

There are several posts regarding bike here. Go to the 'Search Travelfish' box in the left of the grey panel above, and type in 'bike hire Laos' or similar. Also use the 'box' for other queries.

Cheers (from grumpybum).

Hi Bruce, sorry for being so vague in my initial post.

I'm arriving in Vientiane, from there i'm quite interested in making my way northwards, stopping in Luang Prabang for two/three days, before then making my way to Nong Khiaw, from here, my vague plan is to follow the route 1 to an extent before turning southwards.

I do apologise for being a 'newbie', i'm currently reading a quite dated travel guide. The real aim of my trip is to avoid the backpacker trail to an extent, I'm not one for wasting my trip drinking beer, and being disrepectful. One of my main interests is history and photography, so therefore, i'd be going out my way to visit sites of historical importance, or to just visit charming towns and villages.

Again, apologies.

Hi yozza2009 -- no need for apologies!

In three weeks you could cover those destinations -- something like:
Vientiane -> Phonsavan -> Luang Prabang -> Nong Kiaow ->Luang Prabang -> Vientiane -> Pakse -> Bolaven -> Champasak . It's a lot of ground to cover in three weeks, but it is certainly doable. You could stick in a flight here of there also to save a little time.