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The magic of the Mekong Former royal capital Luang Prabang may be changing, but it's at a gratifyingly slow pace, finds Sasha Bates
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You get used to the strange and surreal when you're travelling,
but a day spent in Luang Prabang, northern Laos, must count as one of
my more unusual, featuring, as it did, 1,000 monks, five elephants,
two monkeys, a bike ride, a boat ride, a waterfall swim and a
massage.
Luang Prabang, Laos's former royal capital, is a magically
beautiful place on the banks of the Mekong river, which has the
uncanny ability to appeal both to adrenaline- and activity-seekers,
as well as those after ser...
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A LAOTIAN TOWN BATHED BY HISTORY AND THE MEKONG
The Boston Globe
; LUANG PRABANG, Laos - Leave your watches and calendars behind when you come to this dreamy river town. Luang Prabang is a mural of the 1950s, somnolent and undisturbed, a place where the ghosts of French Indochina still whisper in the breathless heat of summer and the mighty Mekong River rolls past
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The Jewel Of Indochina On The Banks Of The Mekong River Ten Years After First Being Mesmerised, Philip Sherwell Returns To Luang Prabang
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Just about anywhere else in the world, a trip to the local Red Cross office would probably be a sign that your holiday had gone badly wrong. But not in the former Laotian royal capital of Luang Prabang, where the unprepossessing wooden structure tucked away behind Mount Phousi offers a surprisingly
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The magic of the Mekong Former royal capital Luang Prabang may be changing, but it's at a gratifyingly slow pace, finds Sasha Bates
The Sunday Telegraph London
; You get used to the strange and surreal when you're travelling, but a day spent in Luang Prabang, northern Laos, must count as one of my more unusual, featuring, as it did, 1,000 monks, five elephants, two monkeys, a bike ride, a boat ride, a waterfall swim and a massage. Luang Prabang, Laos's
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Profits from Laos The ancient city of Luang Prabang, in Laos, is one of the most magical in the world. Since its designation as a Unesco World Heritage site it has been spruced up but fear not, it is a brilliant example of how to do the job properly
Evening Standard - London
; UNTIL recently, Luang Prabang was a sleepy backwater, only accessible by an 11-hour journey on an appalling road from Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Staying there meant rockhard beds, sporadic electricity and occasional hot water. The place was frequented by a few hardy travellers and the rest of
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 "Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)")
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Bread and Buddhism in Laos' pleasing little town.
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
; Byline: Anne Chalfant LUANG PRABANG, Laos _ Upon arrival in Luang Prabang we scurried as fast as our overcurried tummies would allow to L'Elephant, a French restaurant. Bread? Cheese? After two weeks in Thailand, where rice rules the plate, we were starved for both, and L'Elephant obliged with
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Modern times creep up on lazy Laos river town
China Daily
; LUANG PRABANG: Like everything else in the Laos river town of Luang Prabang, the Mekong appears at ease as it meanders by. Buddhist monks in orange robes and flip-flops walk through the streets collecting alms. Girls on scooters, just out of school, cruise past flowering frangipanis and riverbank
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Calmer kamma Going with the flow, John Graham-Hart stays loose in Laos, where easy fun is the order of the day
The Sunday Telegraph London
; In colonial times, the French had a saying about Indo-China: "The Vietnamese plant the rice, the Cambodians watch the rice grow - and the Lao listen to it grow The implication, of course, is that the Lao are bone-idle. In this corner of Asia, however, there are few simple truths. As Theravada
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Profits from Laos; The ancient city of Luang Prabang, in Laos, is one of the most magical in the world. Since its designation as a Unesco World Heritage site it has been spruced up - but fear not, it is a brilliant example of how to do the job properly.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: NATACHA DU PONT DE BIE UNTIL recently, Luang Prabang was a sleepy backwater, only accessible by an 11-hour journey on an appalling road from Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Staying there meant rockhard beds, sporadic electricity and occasional hot water. The place was frequented by a few
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 "Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)")
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Bangkok Airways proposes new Laos airport.
Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)
; ... newspaper, go to http://www.bangkokpost.com. Copyright (c) 2006, Bangkok Post, Thailand Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-65 ...
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Mekong meditations
The Scotsman
; BRITISH converts to Buddhism have always irked me. Their belief seemed so nebulous as to be virtually no belief at all - a cop-out against any faith with strict rules and eternal damnation for those who don't accept its truth. At their best, western converts to Buddhism seem to want the kind of
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