Automated teller machines or ATMs are pretty much everywhere within the city of Vientiane these days. Some areas of Vientiane even have a couple of ATM's from different banks beside each other.

Even though there's the convenience of an ATM, please be warned that cash advances in Laos have high fees and charges for foreign credit card transactions, so it's advisable to bring cash readily available to use when visiting Laos.

Most businesses in Laos such as general shopping don't accept credit cards unless you go to expensive hotels and restaurants.

ATMs are available in Vientiane and are expected to expand

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you need put a lot of money inside or you put a flexible sanner inside to get the information from bank cards.  I think you are thinking the second.

ba dac wrote on 19^th Jan, 2017 at 12:17pm:

Satan wrote on 20^th Jan, 2017 at 9:36am:



I doubt there are  dark skin sagging pants wearing tattooed gansta rap listening thugs in Vientiane.

They do have them even in small tourist areas, like Tad Lo, Salawan..There's one by the morning market. At night that area is teeming with brothels in every directions, probably at least 10-15 in Tad Lo alone..The white people come for the waterfall, the Lao tourists come for something else.

The Lao tourists usually come for the girls, as there is a large (but seemingly hidden during the daytime) red light district in Tad Lo. A lot of those girls are Lao Teng and they come from the mountainous tribal areas (Ta-Oy, Dak Jeung) to make money.

You'll have to go for yourself and see if you really want to know more, but all of the clientele I've seen there is Asian men. I've seen a couple locations with girls from Vietnam, a lot of tribal Lao mountain girls, and a lot of Lao Lum girls. These are mostly Karaoke bars but some are just plain brothels. I counted at least 10-15 in the village, which is a lot because it's a very small village. The tourists come to see the waterfall at the end of the road and there are a bunch of foreign guesthouses there. The brothels are concentrated around the intersection with the market and the ATM.

well I never said it was a bad thing...it can be quite an immoral (but very enjoyable) thing..

Mark did it