Vang Vieng is famous for tubing and banana pancakes, but we’re here to show you there’s so much more to this town! First up, ...

At 6 a.m., I respectfully sit shoeless and curbside atop a teeny plastic stool while scooping handfuls of sticky rice into heavy pots carried by single-file fast-moving lines of tangerine-robed ...

The Wat Phou site contains two stone palaces. — Photos: DAVID BOWDEN Wat Phou (Vat Phou) in southern Laos – officially known as the Lao People’s Democratic Republic – some 45km southwest of Pakse, is ...

We will be serving drinks and snakes," announced the captain of our Lao Airlines prop flight from Bangkok to the Laotian capital of Vientiane. At last, I thought, a respite from bland airline food! As ...

Discover the timeless beauty of Wat Xieng Thong, a historic temple in Luang Prabang known for its elegant golden details and ...

Our fun-loving readers have embarked on adventures of all sorts over the last year, and shared their tales as they took Spanish cooking lessons in Barcelona, explored England’s maritime past in ...

For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Laos. The world's far ...