I came across my favorite drink, coconut juice, on the streets so I had to get one.

The average price of a coconut costs 10,000 kip ($1.25 USD) on the streets of Vientiane. Smaller size coconuts costs a bit less, and they lift the price for a coconut in restaurants and bars at 15,000 or 20,000 kip.

Apart from selling coconut juice, this young man also sells coconut-flavored iCream.

Motorbike street vendor in Vientiane, Laos

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  What I am reading is that for $500 USD, I can have Millions of Laotian Kip? Sounds to good to be true!

What you say is so true; my days as a Laotian Millionaire would be brief but glorious!

  In our cold climate the Ice Cream Man is a summer-time only treat. In Vientiane is the Ice Cream Man a year-around treat?

An everday Ice Cream Man is a childhood fantasy of we children of the cold.

  In Laos, in Theory, I would be a Millionaire and have a year round Ice Cream Man...what a Paradise!

  But wait, do Laotian men wear pants and shirts in public? Does a white American with no shirt look vulgar? I like warm weather but not being vulgar.

While it's true that you're a millionaire in Laos, goods and services are charged in large figures in tens of thousands so your money will go pretty quickly.

Laotian men can wear in public the same things that men wear in western countries.

Unless you're swimming in Vang Vieng, you'll probably be charged, arrested, or be told to put on a shirt if you were seen shirtless in Vientiane.

Would you walk on the streets of New York with no shirt? Of course you wouldn't, so why do it in Vientiane?

Yeah you don't want to do anything that others are not doing, especially in a communist country like North Korea and Laos.

You should always follow what you see the locals wear, and what you see them do.

Just don't try to act cool or different because tourists need to remember that Laos is still a communist country.

Not many Laotian women have tattoos, maybe less than 5% in the country.

I don't have any tattoos.

Yes, a red and white checked curb means no parking.

The street vendor beside the yellow and white curb can temporarily be there.