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What's new:
 Vientiane Airport to expand
Boun Ock Phansa and Lhai Huei Fai Festival
Destination highlight: Gibbon Experience
Bokeo to build second Airport
New railway project links Laos and China
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Vientiane Airport to expand
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Vientiane Times reported the Vientiane International Airport Terminal Expansion Project involves expansion of the international passenger terminal building and construction of a new domestic terminal building.
Other features include a new airport maintenance workshop, extension of car parking space and construction of an approach road.[Read more]
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Boun Ock Phansa and Lhai Huei Fai Festival
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The Festival, original name is Lhai Heua Fai, celebrated at the night of the End of Lent to mark the end of the monks' three-month-fast and retreat during the rainy season. People gather to make small round containers, using banana leaves on a section of banana trunk, then put flower, incense stick, candles, betel nuts and other condiments for chewing, food money on the top of the container. At dawn, donation and offerings are made at the temples. Prayers are chanted by the monks, and at dusk candlelight procession wind around the temples. The "flower boat", lighted with candles, will be sent floating away at the bank of Mekong or Nam Khan River along with praying and chanting from locals. Lhai Heua Fai is also aimed at sending offerings to the dead. But most of all, it is a homage to the Lord Buddha.
There are also a competition between villages and temples to celebrate this special occasion. Temples and villages build their boats of light, from bamboo and paper, which are much bigger and more elaborately decorated, take paradise at night, along the Old Quarter road, before being selected to be the winner and sent to the bank of Mekong River, in front of Wat Xieng Thong's pier [Read more]
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Destination highlight: Gibbon Experience
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The Gibbon Experience project was established since 1996, with the main aim is to ensure a sustainable future for the Bokeo forest. It is being developed by Animo, a conservation-based eco-tourism company with a mandate from the Lao government to facilitate the sustainable and profitable conservation of the Bokeo Nature Reserve in conjunction with the indigenous inhabitants of the protected area.The Gibbon Experience currently provides full time jobs to over 120 people and has became one of the most highlights in the Western of Laos.
The Gibbon Experience presents a relaxing and peaceful journey, with a range of essential walking, trekking, swimming, living in a house-on-tree and dining with special food. Trekkers choose how to spend their time; there is no schedule; food comes when you are hungry; and the guides are always be around and at your service.
Immerse yourself in the Gibbon Experience, two innovative programs centering on a network of canopy huts that provide a rare opportunity to see black-cheeked crested gibbons, once thought to be extinct. Overnight accommodation is in a canopy tree house with excellent views of the surrounding Bokeo Forest Reserve.
Contact Asia Reveal Tours now for a reservation!
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Bokeo to build second Airport
Bokeo province in Laos plans to build a regional airport with construction expected to start at the end of this year and it should take about two to three years to complete the project.
An investor has gained a 90-year concession to develop a Special Economic Zone in Tonpheung district and part of the deal includes building an airport. An area of more than 200 hectares has been earmarked for the project, while compensation has been offered to local people to vacate their farmlands. No details on the land settlements were divulged or the identity of the investor.. [Read more]
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New railway project links Laos and China
Construction of a railway linking Laos and China, destined to stretch to ASEAN neighbours, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, should begin in November this year.
If things go as planned construction of the railway could take about five years to complete.
The project will connect the Lao capital of Vientiane with the Chinese border, near Luang Namtha, at a distance of 417 km. It will pass through Luang Prabang and through mountain ranges providing the Chinese construction teams with a formidable challenge. [Read more] |
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