Less than 10 years ago, this country has been more or less unknown travelers, but in the past few years, Laos has been more accessible to foreign tourists. Prices fell visa and lifted restrictions on the entry of virtually. While, in fact, this is a very poor country, it was very beautiful and its people and inline kind. The proof of that comes elegant colonial capital of Laos, Vientian (Vientiane), the ancient Khmer temples in Champasak and ancient mountain kingdom Luang Prabang (Luang Prabang).
Laos has three different seasons, each with its own advantages and shortcomings. The best time to visit the cool season, between November and February. By November, the rains usually end, all navigable rivers, and roads passable. The hot season from March to May, can be very dry, but in mid-April, when celebrated New Year with the 14th-16th April, a location can be difficult. In the rainy season, from June to October, the nature of the most beautiful and lush.
While the river valley region is a natural citadel - Bolaven Plateau (Bolaven Plato), rising over the surrounding territory. Here, a high temperature Mekong changes to refreshingly cool breeze. Coffee and tea plantations spread in all directions. With an average height of 600 meters, the high plateau is the river, flee in all directions and then growing in the tropical forests faces breathtaking waterfalls, a height of more than 100 metres, and eventually draining into the Mekong. Khvostopodobnyy southern Laos images such regions as Champasak, Xekong, Attapu and Salavan. Here are many ancient Khmer temples scattered throughout the sizing of tropical forests and rice terraces. The most famous of them, Wat Phou, is the spiritual center of the main dostoprimechatelnost correction.
Wat Phou is one of the most impressive ruins of the Khmer outside Cambodia, and is only a few kilometres away from the fascinating standing on the river Champasak city, the former royal residence no longer existing Lao kingdom with the same name. The ancient capital of Laos Luang Prabang (Luang Prabang) istochaet calm and grandeur.
Situated in a small valley with the green mountains and rivers of the Mekong and Khan, a tiny mountain kingdom has been in existence for more than 1,000 years, and announced the world's legacy in 1995. Luang Prabang is famous for its temples with red roofs and ex - Indo architecture, not to mention the most refined cuisine, its very rich culture and its most sacred image of Buddha (Pha Bang). The legacy of Buddhist temples, architecture and beauty royal Laos to the scene, which is unique by any city in the ancient settlement Vientian (Vientiane), it was based Mon and the Khmer inhabited much earlier Lao King, who moved here from the capital of Luang Prabanga in 1560. When French explorers arrived here in 1867, they found a city driving territories, which are now Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, almost all of jungle vegetation. When Vientian was selected French, the capital of the administrative division of French Indochina, they restore the city and its system of roads. It was in this period (from 1899 to 1945), in the city are French colonial villas.
BEST HOTELS Luang Prabang (Luang Prabang) The Grand Luang Prabang Hotel & Resort. La Residence Phou Vao (bavshi Pansea) Villa Santi Vientian (Vientiane) Lao Plaza Hotel Settha Palace Hotel Novotel Vientiane
