Posts tagged with Temples

We started our day with the early bus to Wat Rong Khun, known among tourists as the White Temple. We used a local bus leaving from the Chiang Rai Bus Terminal 1 (just next to the night bazaar). It was very easy to find the correct bus stop because it...

This part of Laos is so beautiful! The first 30min of our from Vang Vieng, the landscape was particularly idyllic. Rice paddies, many lush, green hills with almost vertical slopes were en exceptional combination. Some parts of the road were destroyed by a land slide from the hill. Many big...

Pi Mai Lao, celebration of the New Year in Laos during the hottest part of the year was an unexpected event we gladly joined :D Officially it is a 3-day celebration but in some cities like Vientiane or Luang Prabang it can last over a week. During the New Year celebrations...

Buddha Park, located 26km from the city center, was our main destination for that day. We decided to use the public transportation to get there and it turned out to be an easy and cheap solution. First you need to go to the central bus station which is divided into two...

The cover of National Geographic which I saw 10 years ago and the article inside caused me to dream about discovering the Khmer Empire. It felt so unreal back then and fortunately some dreams come true earlier than you would expect. There I was, standing in front of Angkor Enterprise...

We encountered some difficulties with the bus again. This time, it stopped in totally different part of the city then what was promised to us. A few tuk-tuk drivers were already waiting to drive us closer to the city center but as expected the price was again way too high....