Monthly Archives: February 2017

Vientiane • Hotel review (S Park Hotel): Nice/modern facilities, a bit outside of the center of town but the shuttle service largely made up for that. We would recommend overall. • Favorite restaurant: Local market outside of the bus station • Favorite tourist attraction: o Mike- Buddha park o Hillary- […]

Laos in Review

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A few fun facts about Laotian food: • Laos is a country with a very diverse culinary tradition that has been influenced by its history of being conquered by its neighbors and colonized by the French • Breakfast is traditionally Pho, which comes from Vietnam • For Lunch locals like […]

Eating and Cooking in Laos

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Laung Prabang is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The entire town is a UNESCO world heritage site, and the title is well deserved. As you walk down the town center and all its little side streets, you are immersed in the beauty of its old colonial architecture mixed in with […]

Discovering Beauty in Luang Prabang

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To say that I flew half way around the world to visit Southeast Asia for the first time, and the biggest highlight of the first city I experienced was a gym seems pretty ‘stupid American’… but bear with me.   As we drove up the block to our hotel in […]

Vientiane From His Eyes

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Sabaidee, the word you hear the most while wandering the streets of Laos. Such a simple word, yet so powerful and indicative of Laotian culture. It has several meanings, but basically amounts to “hello” and a general tone of relaxation and happiness. To be honest Laos was the country we […]

Sabaidee – Vientiane

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  Hello everyone! So the story of how we met and how we got here (Hillary’s perspective). March 9th 2015 I started my first official job after college…and also met the love of my life, Mike, only then I didn’t know it. Mike worked for a different segment of the […]

How We Got Here

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