This past weekend, I and some friends made a visit to the Chinese Shopping Mall which opened in Luang Prabang, Laos just a few months ago. It really stands out, you can´t find a store like this anywhere in town. In the shopping mall you can find pretty much everything, from groceries, washing machines, flat
An Elephant Adventure in Luang Prabang at the Elephant Village A story from Fair Trek team intern in Luang Prabang, Laos. Last Saturday I went on a tour and my time was mostly spent on an elephant’s back and it was great! The day started with a bumpy, but fun tuk tuk ride to the Elephant
There are lots of ways to travel in Lao PDR. Slinging through Lao mountain turns on a motorbike? Fantastic. Getting a cheap, last-minute ticket for a twelve hour bus ride? Not so great. The bus trip from Vientiane back up to Luang Prabang was almost comically bad. Every Lao person on the bus, of course,
Hi my name is Hanna and I am from Sweden. I am working as an intern at Tiger Trail in their Fair Trek Responsible Tourism Division. I will be here in Luang Prabang, Laos for three months. During this time I will put up a post once a week where I tell you about different
I’d been wanting to go rock climbing for ages, but somehow I just never got around to it (like surfing, sigh)—until two weeks ago. And then last week. And this past weekend has just passed without my stepping into a harness and then out into thin air, and I feel terribly Weg deprived. I think
The Elephant Festival in Laos is held in the north once a year. This year it was in Sayaboury Jerseys a playoffs town several hours southwest of Luang Prabang. Many people in town set out to see the Elephants cheap nfl jerseys and enjoy the festival. Tiger Trail made an event of it as well