Tours to Vientiane
Vientiane is the capital city of Laos and is considered to be the largest Village in Asia. It is a vivacious and gorgeous city and is among Lao's major cities.
It is placed on the Mekong River which forms the lifeline of the country. Vientiane is the heart for all tour in the country.
Vientiane is a city bursting with surprises. Here you can come across fields of rice and vegetables, agriculture hidden behind tree lined avenues.
French Colonial architecture sits pretty next to gilded temples. Famous tourist spots in Vientiane are That Luang Royal stupa, Patuxai Victory Monument, Wat Xieng Khouang Buddha Park, Wat Sisaket temple, Lao Revolutionary Museum and lot more other exciting places as well.
Victory Monument bears an outstanding, if somewhat rococo , resemblance to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
An important national monument is the 16th-century That Luang (Royal Stupa) that commemorates Buddhist and Lao union.
Other attractive sights include the Lao Revolutionary Museum; Wat Ho Prakeo, a former imperial temple.
Wat Sisaket, one of the capital's oldest temples; Wat Xieng Khouang (Buddha Park), located 24km (15 miles) south of the city and adorns fascinating Buddhist and Hindu structures.
Actually pronounced Wiang Jan and translated as City of Sandalwood, the modern name of Vientiane comes courtesy of a bastardised French transliteration.
Wiang actually means "fort" (City of Sandalwood sounds better than Fort of Sandalwood) but by
all
accounts it mustn't have been much of a fort, as the original city was over-run on a number of
occasions by the Burmese and Chinese and was absolutely flattened by the Siamese (Thais) in 1828, after which the city was abandoned back to the jungle.
This is one of the reasons why many of the Wats in the city are of a relatively young age, and if the road layout strikes you as a pretty inspired affair, you can thank the French for it -- they laid the whole place when they oversaw the rebuilding of the city through the turn of the 19th to 20th century.
Like many of the French colonial cities, Vientiane is characterised by broad, often tree-lined boulevards, run-down and creaking colonial mansions, rustic Wats surrounded by coconut palms and a generally sedentary pace of life.
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