ลาว - Laos

In order to renew our visas we had to go outside of Thailand and Laos was the closest and easiest boarding country. We left Sunday night, November 19th, around eleven at night and arrived in Laos after a seven hour drive through the night ending around at five in the morning. After waiting in lines and filling out forms we arrived at our hostel at 1:30 Monday afternoon. We checked into Vientiane Backpacker's Hostel and took a very long and much needed nap.

There were murals all over the hostel

After the nap, we walked around the capital and first we saw the Mixay Temple. The temple was right across the street from our hostel and it was beautiful! Then we walked around and saw some other interesting things and later we went to dinner at a GREAT Scandinavian restaurant. 

Mixay Temple

King Chao Anouvong statue

Offerings

Hmong Temple

Ancient ruin in the center of a bustling city

The Presidential Palace

Patuxia Arch in Vientiane- AKA the Victory Monument

The ceiling was beautiful!

And the view was as well

Dinner!!

Scandinavian Bakery in Laos, who knew?

All in all we were pleasantly surprised with Laos! We only stayed there for two days but we really enjoyed the country and learned a lot!