Laos - Lan Chang - Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2018
- The fairly unknown country of Laos still appears to be living a peaceful and sleepy life. With its small population, it still preserves most of its oriental traditions while trying to slowly conform to a fast changing world. The foggy and never ending eastern tip of the Himalayan Range and the Mekong river valleys give the country of Laos a character that has allowed past kingdoms to develop and flourish.
Filmed in 2007
I visited Laos in early 2023, my only regret was not staying longer.
What a rich country with beautiful people
Laos is a beautiful country. The people are so friendly and the food is wonderful. Really worth the trip!!!
So beautiful
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This is one of the very best videos about any country that I have ever seen! Kudos!
I agree 😊
Thanks kuligs Laos is such beautiful place strong and hardworking people
Wonderful voice of the narrator - beautiful country I hope to visit in the near future.
i did a 2-week road trip from LP to Vientiane - BEAUTIFUL 🥰😍😘 pristine, unspoiled landscape for miles 👍👍👍 Laos people ❤️❤️❤️
Love Laos ❤️
26.2.2023.First class.very good and best.💯💋💜.Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much Kuligs. This is an excellent documented video. The narration is very clear and well articulated. Enjoyed viewing it.
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Wonderfully presented and well explained. Thank you for sharing. Khawb chai lhai lhai! 👍
Traveled around northern Laos and as far south as Vientiane in Feb/March 2020
Lovely country and lovely people.
Hi. Oh, but you missed the Phan Don (Thousand Islands) near Pak Se. I saw this on another video. The Mekong has a lot more water flowing: biggest catfish, fresh water dolphins, some inhabited islands you can visit, and of course, the waterfalls!!!!! I lived in Vientiane from birth to 15 years old but we never saw anything. We left because the communists were coming. I want to go back at least once to see many of Laos' beauty. The same of the video is a little incorrect. It's Lane Xang, pronounced Lan Sang. Lan = thousand. Sang = elephants. Capital is pronounced Vieng Chanh. The French spelled it Vientiane according to french pronunciation. The spanish pronunciation is Vieng Chan. Jajaja The vietnamese spelling is Viêng Chằn.
I love its tranquillity and friendliness of the people.
فيديو جميل شكراجزيلا لكم والله يحفظكم ويحميكم ويرعاكم تحياتنا لكم من فلسطين
I like various people documentaries most. It is one of the best .
Beautiful country, beautiful documentary.
Ironic about the title since not a single elephant was shown either roaming or in captivity. But the topography and soul of the country seems pristine and fabulous after all these times of changes taking place in the surrounding region. I think progress and industrialization would somehow ruin it's beauty that's locked in time and era of long ago.
Very much nice video thank you
Incredible video
I love Laos.. Especially Luang prabang... After retire I will go there via Viet... 😍 from Indonesia
Laos dan Vietnam kenapa nggak jadi satu negara saja? Membentuk Uni Soviet Versi Baru. Seperti 16 negara bergabung menjadi Uni Soviet. Sekalian gabung Cina dan Korut. Lalu namanya Uni Cina. Yg jadi Lenin Jinping. Yg jadi Stalin Kim Jong Un.
@@bimanov4407 untuk melawan barat 🤗🤗🤗 dan kemakmuran wilayah 👍👍👍
@@forjw2google135 kalo kemakmuran wilayah aku setuju, agar tidak bubar seperti Soviet. Tapi untuk melawan Barat, aku kurang setuju. Justru kalo berdiri sendiri2, Barat akan mengadu domba Vietnam dan Cina. Seperti yg dulu dilakukan pada Hongaria dan Cekoslowakia. Mengadu domba dua komunis, lalu keduanya berubah liberal. Itulah yg dilakukan Barat.
@@bimanov4407 kamu benar 👍👍👍
Awesome
very nice documentary video
Thanks 🙏
Laos best place in the world
Great video 👍👍👍
Sending my full support from Japan
Very good video
very nice video
Nice documentry
I agree
Great job 👏
Excelente video!!!
very nice documentary i like it
The Laotians. A great bunch of lads.
Very beautiful lands nerve green
Love Laos. Stayed mostly in Vientiane, but my favorite city is Luang Prabang! 😍
Mines too!! Luang Prabang stole my heart!
@@ivyvaaj7855 are you going back to Laos ?
@@richardwestwood8212 as soon as they allow travel from the U.S.
@@ivyvaaj7855 enjoy your stay and have fun 🏵️🍁🌹🌾🌷
I’ll be following your path,can’t wait
_ great documentary ..
welcome to Laos very peaceful land we love to be Laos
Nice video
Thanks for sharing your beautiful content and thanks for visiting my small house godbless well full support already my friend to your channel
Love the nature ..save the Earth.
Thank you very much For The really story
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Coodmorning Thankyou
Wow how beautiful
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16:52 There is a popular local legend among the Hmong people that tells the story about a couple named Nkauj Ntsuab and Sis Nab. The couple ran away together for many days. They made pots to cook with, but they couldn't carry the pots with them. Those jars are the pots they left behind.
Life Yang - you’re wrong. It was a cemetery.
Hoping to visit next Christmas
Have you visited
@@unclemawiteachangsan4874 Yes, went the November before the pandemic struck
Thanks the Kuligs produced this video. However, the proper spelling for ລາວ ລ້ານຊ້າງ shall be " Laos Lane Xang"
Beside you proberly drank a lot of Beer Chang from other side of Mekong river... Cheers.
My 3rd or 4th visit - 1st time in late 90s and a few times to present moment
Definitely lots of Chinese development in Vientiane- Covid left a huge void - massive empty shop fronts But new roads and fast train will change it quickly .
Still hard to fathom the secret war that still has UXO s exploring maiming people
Last trip visited plain of jars also - which has a little museum about the bombing by US forces
But love being back here
Good video
This documentary was just made in 2018 and it didn't mention the growing Chinese establishment in Laos. I think soon the China will take over Laos because I have visit Laos in 2015 and then went back during same time period this documentation was made I notice the Chines were building bridge, building, road/railroad and house every where in the 3 years since I was there. This was my view of Laos's future. If this kept up, soon Laos people will be slave to the Chinese as they start to over take the land and its natural resources.
Actually, this docu video was made in 2007 as can be seen at the end credits.
Also, the Chinese take over I think is less of a surprise since Laos sadly adopted a Communist form of government which we all know at this time, brings nothing good to whichever region it touches, same with the coming of the CCP, nothing good will ever come of it.
I'm sorry to say, but you are an idiot. China's investment just like American Investment are everywhere in the world, all country has the right to negotiate and invest in other country. And does not have China geopolitical ambition in Laos. There are just as much American, Thai and French presence in Laos and ALL 3 of those country have invaded Laos one way or the other in the past, how come I never heard people complain about them? Racist much??? Laos needs to grow its economy and the most efficient and cost effective way is to work with China, or do you expect America to build Laos a high speed rail when it can't even build such things for its own people? All the Chinese I have meet in Laos are just ordinary people just like everyone else who are trying to live a good life, to say they are there to enslave Laos just shows your stupid fucking ignorance, now stfu before you make a fool of yourself.
@@ZxZ239
So how's communism working out for you? As you can see, I am not and will never be a COMMUNIST. So I am NOT the idiot, right?
Continue your political propaganda. If you have read Chinese literature, China actually took over here thousands of years ago. So this is what it is now?
A group of clowns talk about the future. It is ridiculous that they never said that white people colonized, slaughtered and plundered most of the earth's resources. Build Catholic churches all over the world to spread their own culture
Lan Cang documentary in Laos country. very caulor yellow golg. relligions Budhi's is creative here are everyday.good working always.
Welcome to Laos Laos is a peaceful country. Is a country in Asia that is landlocked.
ນິດສາ ສາວລາວ
peaceful country my ass. If you don’t assert in their communist beliefs, off with your head , that’s their logo. These communist loas pethatic are still killing my hmong people in Loas to this day. Don’t fall for their communist tricks...
I am from India, there also many other Landlock countries in Asia like Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Mangolia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, kirgizstan, etc
Are you a Hmong in Laos now? Can we connect? I want to hear more about the situation with Hmong from you. Thank you
@@gdfilhyjob5469 it's probably safer for the Hmong to return to China ...Laos is not a safe place to live ( for Hmong).
@Nitsa lao Girls
Laos is a peaceful and you're so beautiful for me😘
Good documentary. Went there two years ago. Love VangVieng. Beautiful mountains. Went to Xiengkhoua, visited the plain of jars. Beautiful site.
Visited Vientiane too. It’s super busy and so crowded.
I’m here now, got stuck during corona. It’s not very busy atm
Fascinating. I have only been to Vientiane once, to acquire a visa for Thailand. Seemed sleepy and boring. I'm sure there is much more to the country.
I guess when the Kuligs produced this video, they didn't know "Lan Chang, in Thai" from the true Lao phrase "Lan Xang, or in French we call Lane Xang".
The correct pronunciation Lane Xang , the French and those older Lao leaders was not dumb . As a Laotian I can tell you that Lane Xang is the right one by the French pronunciation and not English .
I should try to go to Laos
My Thai GF & I traveled by Mini Bus from Luang Phrabang to Phonsovan in 2010. Every 25 to 40 km, the bus would drive thru a small Hmong village on a 1km straight piece of road. These are all old CIA LIMA secret Air Bases. They were used extensively from 1965 to 1975. These bases supplied the local Hmong Guerrillas operating against the Pathet Lao Communists & especially the invading Vietnamese.
Vietnam has effectively occupied the eastern 35% of Laos & Cambodia from North to South. They ethnically cleansed the local Laos & Cambodians. The Vietnamese didn't massacre the locals, just ordered them to move out or they would be killed.
So the locals abandoned their villages, which are now occupied by Vietnamese farmers & Hanoi Government Agencies. 100% Vietnamese.
A Lao Engineer confirmed this info to me in Thahket.
Thank for sharing this. And people wondered why Cambodians and Laotians had hatred toward the Vietnameses. The invading forces had not left. Many of their officers worked as the government. Now the Chinese Communists are trying to replace the Vietnamese Communists. Democracy hasn' t arrived fast enough.
@@Account.for.Comment You guys forgot the part where the U.S. dropped more bombs on Laos than all of WW2 combined. Unexploded ordinance are still killing people until this day. The country was bombed back into the stone ages by U.S invaders. Just stop the lying already.
Yo just mentioning... if they truly meant land of a million elephants, it's called Lan Xang in Laos, not Lan Chang which is in Thailand
Same thing. Xang should be spelled Sang and Sang is the same as Chang, just that in Lao there is no CH sound so it becomes S. Same as there not being a R sound in Lao, so it becomes an L or H sound instead.
@@therock8224 Just came across this video and surprisingly found you here.😀
@@therock8224 it should be spelt X "ຊ" which has a longer phonetic sound than S "ສ".
@@kittenastrophy5951 You're that guy who comments on the Mae Sot videos? Hey why would I not be here? I am interested in all sorts of SE Asian countries due to the nature of my work. I'm more surprised to see you here, given you said you were only interested in Thai videos.
@@aag1140 No. The X is from the French. The ຊ and ສ are the same sound. They can and should be expressed as "S" in English. You can continue to use the X if you want, but just saying it's a holdover from French and has nothing to do with anything else. There is no "proper" or "official" way of transliterating Lao script into Roman script.
Love lao
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A very historical documentary i like it.
I' m proud that I'm from Pakse, Laos. I rather remember I' m poor and live life happy as today.
And be humble
dude, this is cool
Lao look so charming
Lao Lan Xang when my first time I ever visited the motherland was also in 2007!
What's the song/singer you can hear (e.g.) around 2:47 ?
It's actually us... me and my bro singing wannabe-asian music. Words are made up and don't mean a thing... We needed an asian-sounding song for the doc. Cheers
@@TarsierTV dude it sounds really funny, record that song please :-)
I was about to say that I’m not familiar with the words
@@Aidualc68 😄
The music is fantastic Anyone have a clue what it all is?
mostly composed by my brother and me, both producers of the documentary
Lan Chang is Thai language and Lan Xang is Lao language , both words mean million elephants .
I have been there once for a visa to Thailand. Can you retire there, easily, or is it a big hassle like Thailand?
There are expat vlogs from Laos. Can't remember remember names. But don't think it is difficult to retire there.
It’s similar to Thailand. In fact less land rights in Laos for foreigners.
The bamboo bridges are not built across the mekong
Biodiversity, ecosystems and pure air environment, we need to preserve all the
Species and oldest trees 🌳 🦚🌦🦢
Palmyra trees also very useful
I wish to go there someday!
I got stuck here during lockdown 🤣
@@Craig_Black ... really? Why? Do you live in Laos?
@@dinamardossantos8004 I do now... 🤣 came here for two weeks before going to Vietnam but the borders shut.
@@dinamardossantos8004 I’ve been here for 11 months..
@@Craig_Black ...ok! Take care! Best wishes!
vientiane, lanxang so these spellings were given to the kingdom of laos before
HERKESE SELAMLAR SEVGİLER SAYGILAR. ALLAH NE MURADINIZ VARSA VERSİN. AMİN...KURTARICIM...
ງາມແທ້ເດ
Very Sad .... that most young Laotians have to go to Thailand to work for under pays. Most Teachers, police works without regularly paid period. Police nurses and teachers never really have attends colleges. They only been trained. They also have to pay an upper person to get in a job with out proper educations and trainings.
That's what the old saying "ລາວເຮັດລາວໃຊ້ລາວຈະເລຶນ" A dependent grants from foreign countries have just enough to pay government top officials but improving it's citizens. Sad!
Why very sad , it is normal for any 3rd world country .
Lan Chang even I grew up in the period Le Royaume Du Laos never heard such oddy name
Thank you so much for producing and sharing this very nice documentary. "Lan Chang" should be "Laan Xaang." By calling "Lan Chang" is somewhat disrespectful. It appeared that you did your research in Thailand. Thank you.
กราบสาธุครับ
ລ້ານຊ້າງ beautiful
I wish Laos was still this tranquil. 2010 was last it was like this. Now it’s more like a real capital city with the traffic and high rise. Gone are the days of quiet peaceful tranquil village like setting.
Brian Lester I agree. But their culture is so different. It would never be like the western world just because the culture are very different. Medical wise, the people wouldn’t be ok with some of the things we do here, they’d often just rather do their rituals and use herbal medicine, sometimes due to not believing in the medical system and sometimes due to not being able to afford it. It’s sad, but there, people often die just from an appendicitis because they didn’t know, or just rather refuse a surgery, or can’t afford it.
Example, non medical but just as difference from where I’m from, California: I went to Laos in 2010. The flight from Thailand to Laos was scheduled for 7pm. At 7:30 no plane. I started getting worried. I went to ask the lao airline desk and they said they don’t know what’s going on. 8:00pm comes around and now I’m really worried that maybe flight got cancelled. Asked desk again and same answer. So I sat and just waited while worried as heck to what’s going on. 8:40 and plane rolls in. Me and my people are worried as hell, while the Lao passengers just shrugged it off and just got ready and got on the plane. What I’m saying is that in California, or anywhere in the USA, a plane being almost 2 hours late is unacceptable with no notice or information on delay. But I was later told that that’s the culture, everyone is relaxed and whatever happens happens attitude. Everyone is usually always late. And while I’m in the country, I notice the culture was the same way. I booked a tour in Luang Prabang, and it said 8am, but the tour guide didn’t show up til 9:15. No one seemed to care though 🤷🏻♂️....... so I don’t think it’ll ever be as advanced or catch up to western countries, but in all honesty, I think the locals couldn’t care less anyways.
@@00ninja00 Thats funny you say they could never be "advanced" as the west. Whereas in the west diseases and premature deaths are rampant compared to that country. Plus, there's nothing wrong with "rituals" and herbal medicines. I lived in California my whole life and the first part of my life i was taught to believe in conventional medicines, hospitals, etc...not to mention i became an alcoholic at a young age and remained one for 25 years..Western medicine did nothing for me. It was until i learned Eastern teachings of Buddhism and Hinduism that my addiction has completely ended--through natural means only (i havent partcipated in the " health care system" in 20 yrs) I dont think you can compare a country still enriched in spiritual beliefs (Laos) to a country entrenched in materialism and Western thought. I could imagine that when your plane was late you might have exibited signs of nervousness and rise in blood pressure--Mostly ego driven symptoms. Which can be unhealthy in the long run...Kinda reminds me of and Eastern saying..."let go, or be dragged" haha...anyways. take it easy🙋♂️
@@junjungatbos3548 I agree with you. And I don’t mean they’ll never catch up In a bad way, I’m fact what I meant was that it’ll never be like the west in a good way, due to very different cultures. That’s what I mean by the locals couldn’t care less if the plane was late. We in the West are taught to get all worried if the plane was few hours late. And I come from Laos, ancestors I mean. I also grew up very westernized but I knew my roots and my family often practiced a lot of the eastern medicine, spiritual things and herbal medicine. Visiting Laos opened us my eyes to my parents and grandparents ways. I always misunderstood their ways, but not until I got to experience my ancestors lifestyles, I didn’t understand why they are the way they are. I now appreciate the easy going, life’s stress lifestyle. But even in Laos, the big cities like Vientiane is not the same anymore. People there are very westernized now. Materialistic as the west. In Vientiane, there’s a care dealer that sells $500k lambos and Ferraris! But the countryside and mountain people still live a lot like they’ve always did, with tha added cell phone in everyone’s hand, and everyone has a Facebook account! Hahaha
Leave these people alone please , everybody deserve to live in peace , forget about progress , happiness is the most important , my best wishes for them.!🌅🌄😍
Iam.from.Nepal.looking
The traffic is terrible in Vientiene.
Normal for SE Asia.
Vang Vieng was a heddonistic Ferang play ground when I was there in 2010. Wild beer pong parties c/w a lot of drunk & drugy young foreigners. Many were injured & quite a few died or drowned. The Lao shut it all down in about 2012; but Trip Advisor indicates there are still 3 loud bars on the tube trips today in 2019.
A few drunken bars? It sound like a US college town.
@@MrMaj5757
Prior to 2012, there was like 20 Bars on the river and another 25 in the town. All roared for 12 hours per day x 365 days a year. 100's of foreigners were injured every month & about 20 per year died. The carnage was a pain in the ass, for the various Embassies, which are in Vientianne, 2 hours by road. This is a small Lao Town of about 5000 permanent residents. There is maybe a small hospital with limited triage capabilities c/w doctors & nurses with questionable credentials.
That's why the Lao Govts shut it down. Now there is just a few bars on the river.
Norman McKinnon this town is a place for drugs. If foreigners come to this town for vacation “ you are here for drugs use” not to see the beauty of the country. There are lots of other beautiful mountains range to see.
I prefer living in Laotian bamboo house than that comfort trailer park in US and others western countries.
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I in lao for 7 years
its called Lan Sang, not Lan Chang. The capital is pronounced Vieng Chanh, not Vien Tien.
Lao people called Lan Xang foreigner Vientiane
@@phetlucky9175 Some foreigners called "Vieng Chan".
Thank you. This guy was butchering the name intentionally
I guess his wife or husband is thai. That's how they pronounce it.
@@lbspath That's no excuse whatsoever. This was supposed to be a documentary of Laos...not someone personal experience traveling through Laos, even that, atleast try to get that shit right, very misinformed, disrespectful to Lao people.
I just want to go there and write a great novel and a handful of poems
Haha, I got stuck here due to corona..
Laos country with stely religion's Buddis clothes orenge quite view full pull .nature usuly natural by dukument spesifec is good
LAOS is a beautiful country people took nice and friendly
I love Luang Prabang. I go there in 1972, 2010 & 2012. Beautiful Wats 500 years old. The oldest complete Buddhist Wats in the world.
Mekong is the biggest river in Asean & Asia.
Thanks to the American, Laos used to be land of million elephants now LAND of million Unexploded ordnance.
@Da Phetdala Neutral my A.. Laos been under control by the French since the Indochina times so idk what kind of neutral you're talking about here. The north Vietnamese invade Laos to use Laos or get Laos involve to fight against the French and the Americans whom siding them. They even try to take control some parts of Vietnam and Cambodia, which why Vietnam war triggers because the communist didn't bow down to these white people and let them have it their way, it's all political related. If the communist didn't do anything Laos would have been under control by the French until today, imeant why the F they care who take control of Laos? They have their own country their own lands all the way in other side of the world, and doing wealthy. If only these white people just f-off and leave us be many innocent people wouldn't have so much suffer and lost their lives. Whatever i said there's no way i can make white men sluts to see the same points of view as me, but i know what's right and wrong.
@Da Phetdala History book that written by white people? The French divide Laos Esarn land to Thailand, building railroads and many structures and you called that barely? If Laos gained Manarchy 1950 than why the French and Americans assign who to be leader for Laos huh? Why do they still wondering around? Give me the reason why the Vietnam war happen if it wasn't because of the communist try to chase white people out, imeant Vietnam didn't fly planes oversea to bombs America like Japan, so what reason do you have?
Let me give you a 100% true is what going to happen if the communist don't do anything. King Savana will probably still be the leader like how the white people want, and after the king die, Vang Pao will take control which is already stat in the documentary that's how white people would want it to happen and that's mostly the reason why the Hmong fought the communist for. Then Laos would have become Hmong country so knock yourself in the head for me and think about my words right or wrong.
@Da Phetdala I understand that all those suck white people dick will live more wealthier life that's because they get the help from them, but since i don't have a brain like you i rather build my own house with my own two hands instead of have others help you and they gain benefits from you.
And again the way your talking is like North Korea want to hurt South Korea and there goes again your heroic Americans occupied there, base there to protect South Korea? I don't think a one bit that North Korea would want to hurt South Korea cause no matter what they still have the same ancestry. Imeant rich or poor if North Korea want to destroy south Korea you think it's too hard to do so? I know myself well that im a reasonable person to judge whats right and wrong so there's no way i can make you or people like you out there to understand. And don't get me wrong cause It's not that i like the communist but my question is who is the good guy? Laos have live long suffer, and many lives has lost if it not because of your heroic white people?
Da Phetdala how about they were working together to destroy Laos
The mines make good tourist sights.
Laos means Louis
Vietnam means viet man's
Cambodia means combos
Thailand means lands of thai
Myanmar means king mayans or king burma's
Malaysia means peninsula
Brunei means bruno's king
Singapore means prince gafores
Indonesia means spaicy island or prince indo of peninsula
PHILIPPINES means king philip of spain
And
Palau means prince Paul of spain
Thanks for sharing
laos come from the word 寮國
Thailand from Dai people 傣族
Vietnam from the word southern Viet
Malaysia come from Malaya plus Singapore & Sabah Sarawak. Malaya is Malayalam of Indian origin.
I think the jars held lingon crystals at one point, something the Indians knew about to create energy.
Kingdom Of A Million Elephants
sabaidee soukanda😘😘😘😘
Sok dii!
Laos is such a big country, but population is only 7 millions people??
About the same size as Uk.
Malthus at work.
It is much busier these days.
Covid aside of course
1 Asean. Nusantara Bersatu.
Never heard of any body calls Laos as Lan "Chang" until now. Lao does have the X or the S sound so using Ch to replace S or X sound is incorrect. As D D Y 4 stated below, don't get confused between Lao and Thai language. When you are not sure, better ask the locals how to pronounce it. Don't just make up word that incorrectly describes "elephant" in Lao.
That music is not even Laos music
Beautiful full people love from india 90s india looking same but today plastic make dirty ☺️☺️
Laos use to be the Country of Lane Xang but now it the land of dams
True
lol...nice music