Hello I have just arrived in Vientiane Friday 23 March, here for the next 7 days.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/travel/36-hours-in-vientiane-laos.html

Had found the article in a search..so grabbed a Samlo an went for a search. Its so much like Thailand 30 years ago, not that's a bad thing it's a good thing.

try some of that yaba pillz, good stuff!

Eat eat eat, and hit the club. :)

longhang wrote on 26^th Mar, 2012 at 9:39pm:

try some of that yaba pillz, good stuff!

;D ;D ;D

Can't do much when you're stuck in a bind...

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I've seen too many animal cruelty in Laos. Some Lao people need to be executed, seriously.

Poor pig. How much does one cost?

Don't know how much it cost, didn't try to buy one or ask. The pigs didn't move at all.
I was told that some foreigners would buy some of these animals and set them free and as they were set free, the people selling the animals would go and capture them again, haha. I thought it was kind of funny cause they thought the foreigners were stupid. That's just how life is there though, I appreciate it more now that I've seen it and understand their way of life and how it is to live there. Survival is the name of the game.

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Protein folks!

That looks like maggots, dead rats and toads.

A typical day at an open air market in Laos.

I started this and now it’s turned to animal welfare, didn’t see that coming.

I have now returned to Australia. It was a long four week trip started Sydney to Melbourne(F1 GP) five days back to Sydney departed next day to Singapore for two days then Bangkok for two days then Vientiane for seven days back to Bangkok twelve days then Singapore one day and back home.

The cities I visited I’ had been many times except one, Vientiane why did I go? Well way back in the early 90’s I was living and working in Bangkok had a Thai wife, two young sons and things were great. Then I meet her, Phet, she was Lao and I loved her, she wanted me to run off with her to Laos to a city I knew nothing about Vientiane. I finally told my Thai wife about Phet which she took well....NOT! I was given the ultimatum end it and return to Australia with her and my sons, I had two sons and the threat was never see them again. So I never made it to Vientiane till now.

I had a great time Vientiane made some female friends and most day’s it was sleep, eat, go to club and drink and go to another club an drink then another club and finishing around four in the morning, it was a fun time.

lional wrote on 19^th Apr, 2012 at 6:42am:

Then I meet her, Phet, she was Lao and I loved her, she wanted me to run off with her to Laos to a city I knew nothing about Vientiane.

It seems to me like stealing someone's husband.

I guess you're into the clubbing scene, I'm glad you enjoyed your time in Vientiane.

haha, animal welfare, I just wanted a chance to post them pics and when I heard about nothing to do, I thought of those pigs with no liberty to do anything, so it could be worse than boredom.

Anyways, sounds like you had a typical trip to Vientiane, eat, sleep, drink beer lao, clubs and repeat.
Just curious, did your wife and kids let you go on your own to Vientiane? Are you still with them and did you ever meet Phet again? Why did you fall for her at that time instead of your Thai wife? Perhaps you chose with the other head at the time, haha.
When I was in Laos, I just wanted to relax so I went for massages everyday (I'm talking about a real massage, not a rub and tug haha), ate at different places everyday, my favorite is still the couchy pate bread, the one across from the business school was the best I tasted, should have taken pictures. I also went to all the dalats to check out what they have to offer and buy clothes that don't fit me, but I can't complain about the price. Crashed a couple "dongs" (wedding receptions) cause it seems like they invite the entire neighborhood and everyday there was a new one happening. Went to the hang outs at the huts next to the water where people eat, sleep and play cards while looking for poo sao's. It's all a blur now though cause it felt like a dream. I think the next Hangover movie should be in Laos.

“It seems to me like stealing someone's husband.”

Well my understanding of the way Lao ladies behave is unsure they are quiet and subtle and demure. In Bangkok man stealing is the nation sport of phuu ying they don’t want you until they know you’re with another lady and even worst if they personally know the other lady and call her a friend, just must have you!

“Just curious, did your wife and kids let you go on your own to Vientiane? Are you still with them and did you ever meet Phet again? Why did you fall for her at that time instead of your Thai wife?”

That was my first wife of 3, she never forgave me and we busted up 5 year later. I kept the boys and she went out I got a boyfriend 10 years younger than herself, I took the higher ground a got a Thai trophy wife (number 2) 20 years younger and gorgeous I won that battle. I was more a father to her than a husband and we separated after a few years, number 3 lives in Bangkok but don’t see each other much I just pay the bills. I met the sister of Phet by accident many years latter and was told she married and was living in Taiwan. When pretty young women come at you and they are soft, lovely and want you it’s very hard to resist them.

That hangover movie I was going to sue for copyright I knew most of the places they filmed and had a few lost weekends in Bangkok, It’s not easy to explain you went to meet someone 2pm on a Friday and come Home 7am on a Monday.

Yup ppl got to eat and make a living :)


HAIR wrote on 17^th Apr, 2012 at 8:26pm:

Protein folks!

Curious, do 'middle class' folks in Vientiane occasionally eat these kind of animals? I know for a fact that folks from the rural regions consume whatever they can find in the wild environment.


wrote on 19^th Apr, 2012 at 1:06pm:

Yup ppl got to eat and make a living :) HAIR wrote on 17th Apr, 2012 at 8:26pm: Protein folks!

When I walked through these markets, I saw just about everything possible, anything that lived in Laos was able to be sold there, every type of vegetation that was edible was found there. Let's just say there was nothing wasted.

Did you get to see any animals that resemble to be 'farm raised'? Those images that you took are from Vientiane markets?


Buk Hoo Kee wrote on 20^th Apr, 2012 at 8:40pm:

When I walked through these markets, I saw just about everything possible, anything that lived in Laos was able to be sold there, every type of vegetation that was edible was found there. Let's just say there was nothing wasted.

Only middle income can afford meat all the time. Poor maybe one in awhile.

Some animals are farm raise, some are wild. If you catch something first thing come to your mind is trying to sell them to get money.


HAIR wrote on 20^th Apr, 2012 at 7:49pm:

Curious, do 'middle class' folks in Vientiane occasionally eat these kind of animals? I know for a fact that folks from the rural regions consume whatever they can find in the wild environment. wrote on 19th Apr, 2012 at 1:06pm: Yup ppl got to eat and make a living :) HAIR wrote on 17th Apr, 2012 at 8:26pm: Protein folks!

What is considered 'middle' class over there?  Household income range? HOme value?



llX wrote on 21^st Apr, 2012 at 8:01am:

Only middle income can afford meat all the time. Poor maybe one in awhile. Some animals are farm raise, some are wild. If you catch something first thing come to your mind is trying to sell them to get money. HAIR wrote on 20th Apr, 2012 at 7:49pm: Curious, do 'middle class' folks in Vientiane occasionally eat these kind of animals? I know for a fact that folks from the rural regions consume whatever they can find in the wild environment. wrote on 19th Apr, 2012 at 1:06pm: Yup ppl got to eat and make a living :) HAIR wrote on 17th Apr, 2012 at 8:26pm: Protein folks!