Disappointment in Vang Vieng Laos | Now in Lao S.E.Asia
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Our latest road trip to Vang Vieng was a major DISAPPOINTMENT!!
Disappointment in Vang Vieng Laos | Now in Lao
With the re-opening of the provincial borders we are Travelling Laos again and hit the road to Vang Vieng passing many construction sites of the New high spee rail Laos. It's not until we arrive in Vang Vieng that our disappointment sets in...RANT WARNING!! Everyday life in Laos, we live in Vientiane, Now in Lao with Lao wife, Neenee Lao life living in Laos capturing the Lao lifestyle, daily life in Lao, where to go in Laos, travel destinations, customs, Lao development and how people live in Laos in their travel Laos videos and travel vlogs. Now to Lao, Vlogging Laos S.E.Asia !!
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Sabaidee and welcome to my channel....Now in Lao!!
My name is Todd and i am currently living between Laos and Australia, 3 months at a time.
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Chill out mate! Really cool seeing the houses from Laos. My friend from Perth wants a shoutout 😁
This is my mom home town, it so different now , It was so beautiful than ,but it still beautiful ,I like the old vang vieng
Same 😔
Great Video!!! I can see why it pissed you off!! Yeah I new road really kills the scenery.
Vang vieng so beautiful, i haven't been there yet. Great video Mr. & Mrs TODD and family
Good to see you and the family are out. Big change from your old videos of VV than the one today.
Great work new things new places yahoo it flying
Thanks for the tour...I do want to visit the place....
have Some changes ~
Thank you for recording this.
No problem 😊
Good vid mate, cheers
Thanks Pedro 👍
Hahaha ..grreat intro ...I can certainly relate to that..
Still want one..😝
Thanks for an interesting video. Shame your first trip after covid and so many changes. I don’t think it will return to the popularity that it once had. Such a shame to destroy the natural beauty. Good luck to you all and hope you enjoy your time away. It is what you make it!
Good morning Diggy. I agree with you mate, VV has seen it's best days.
Hi Todd yes gutted to say the least, love the view from the Vansana will be staying there in November all being well! Used to stay in the Ban Sabai bungalows before the Inthira hotel was built and watched the cows walking back and fore on the other side. Check out our drone video of Vang Vieng taken 2018 on Jaspa63.
I was born in 26km village called Ban Illay your videos brings back memories, thank you.
The pubs in Sydney have opened up, i was there at 10 30 ,they gave us a $25 voucher, it was the coldest most refreshing schooner I have ever had , I was very very happy by 3 pm. Haaaa , life is nearly normal
Hahaha good onya Gordo! Have one for me mate 👍
Black Pints Matter 🍺
Very understandable 👍
Nice vid bro
I was there in January my son lives and works out there I had a fantastic time and definitely Gary’s Irish bar is great for food
I was there 20yrs ago, it was much nicer then
Thanks for all your hard work and great videos to show the world the beauty of LAO
Our pleasure!
Thank you for this video
You're welcome
Added this place to my next travel destination list. Cheers!
You'll have a fun time here 👌
Be sure to order up some sticky rice, papaya salad, beef jerky, and bamboo soup and maybe some baked chicken. Hands down my favorite Lao meal to eat as a kid till this day.
@@ineedadab Sticky rice, beef jerky and jeow! My favorite meal when we're on the road over here 👌
@@NowinLao omg I completely forgot about the jeow bong, facepalm. Damn it making me hungry now lol.
Nice info video, good update on Vang Vieng. At least your bars with drinks are open. In Thailand even restaurants that can open cannot sell alcohol. Bars are still shut so Laos is better for staying open during this virus.
Thanks mate. The bar here is open because it's a restaurant also. Restaurants have only been allowed to open in the last 2 weeks. 50+ days without any reported cases now 👌
Richard Townsend
Yep, the alcohol rule in restaurants here in Thailand is bizarre. Half the people who go to a restaurant, go to relax and have a beer or glass of wine...it’s the only rule that makes no sense to me.
Yes it is terrible this booze ban in Thailand
Very good
been loved it will be back soon
I am so glad that traveled through this area many years ago
You're right Betty. Vang Vieng's best days are behind us.. 😔
Sabaidee 🙏 Thx for sharing bro, I'm totally agree with ya very disappointed it's a f.~ken eye sore, should leave other side untouched 😤
sorry to see they messed up your happy place. I think any place that is a tourist area is really going to be hurting if they survive at all...no tourists. Same here in Thailand, if it's a international tourist destination.....it's a ghost town. Thanks for all the laughs at the beginning of the road trip! That's what happens when you don't get out much :D
Hang in there folks!
With that bloody road I absoutely agree. The most disappointment for me is that hellish noisy music. How one restaurent could harass all the neighbourings, and even more in the daylight (20:45). You see tourists from all around the world but hardly a mite of civilization. Thank for sharing the trip.
Still more disappointment to come Phet... haven't shown you everything yet. 😔
@@NowinLao 😢
So true, I've been there, very dissapointing.
Why......why ...why!
Change !
Thank video kup
And then no-one will be able to cross the road and they won't be able to serve. I love when the development keeps the real feel of the place. And the huts, what a damned shock it must have been for them. I hate traffic! I always try to get away but now further and further. You are right- cant stop stupid change!
Hey guys,, i loved this vid ,because it was love and life. You guys were SO happy getting out of town for a little roadie to V.V. and then to have the rug jerked out from under you when you got there. It was damn near a tear jerker! That road has deep and unbelievable suck factor. Those mountains are as gorgeous as ever,, but progress does not improve the looks of the mtns. At the very most,,maybe an improved walking path ,, but a road? Did the chinese have something to do with it? Maybe they are building a giant mega resort on that side of the river. I hope not! Yeah this one was an emotional roller coaster. From the happy departure ,, to the pandemic changes in V.V. I could feel your pain,, becase i do the same when my fave places change. I think we need to do a t-shirt with a giant chinese branded vacuum sucking up old Lao style wood building and those gorgeous mountains. With the words,,,"progress sucks the beauty and life out of EVERYTHING" now in lao and mtnman say so! Thank you all for the trip and the imformation. Hang in there my friends. Quick virus update,, in the last week weve had 23 new cases in this county, most active cases in Montana. What can i say ,,people are stupid,, the same as view ruining ,building changing ruiner are. Ttyl Todd and Neenee,,, Marlont
Vang vien is beautiful
Pity a bit too much young disrespectful party people
But luckily many laos too
good
wow! lots of high hotels. before (2009) it was 3 floors max.
and yes, im pissed off with the new road :-( they would have built it not along the river :-( it is probably to increase the value of the property.
i remember that area used to have a few small houses, tall grass, trees and bamboos.. a bike route to some caves.
It's still beautiful. Come to Phuket if you want to whinge about how changes and development have messed this place up. Better be ready to spend 3 times more than you spend in Laos.
Hmmm so i have heard 😏
Yup, you have to laugh - different culture, different priorities .. it’s all gearing up for when the rail link comes. I’m glad I visited a long time ago although I was never a fan of VV.
It’s still organically beautiful
Sabaidee, ສະບາຍດີ. I usually dont make any comments in here but seeing the change and the new road built on the riverfront isn't so natural anymore. People have to cross the road to serve foods, oh my! Brilliant ideas. This is a Lao home, not a Chinese home??? Greetings from the US. But i am from Laos, live in America. kob Jai Lai Lai for sharing, Todd and Neenee, ຂອບໄຈເດີ.
Yes...Brilliant idea wasn't it!! There were many other places to gain access to the western side and this was the best place....?🙄😏 Thank you James, i appreciate you commenting. Hope you are well there in the States 🙏
I use to live there back in 70 now is change I can’t remember anymore my mom born there now we live in USA for 43 years now may be in future I will go back to visit.
Hi Todd, the French song which was famous years ago, have U ever heard the flip side in English.. it's crude mate haha in English I bet your miss always forgets things lol love your videos
Nah, not the English version.
Yeah...she is 😐
Are you talking about this : th-cam.com/video/vJMLJVha5sw/w-d-xo.html ?
I really disappointed about Vangvieng Changed 😔☹️
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Bummer about the riverfront places. At least they still have a view of the river. Ha ha! Recognised again :)
They bloody should recognize me...i don't think I've ever been to Vang Vieng and not had a feed and a beer at Gary's 🍺😝👍
The roads fucked!
LOL. It usually takes us 3-4 times before we can leave the house on a big trip too.
Hi Todd I have a question every where you go and visit different city in Lao do you have to get any permission to go to each city or province. I love to go just like you to make a clip but don’t know the rule.
Oh my God has been 28 years ago since I’ve been back home a lot changing I hope it is good things sorry must be very difficult everywhere specially in USA. I wish I’m there right now in Lao. Luang phabang par ou. My nephew have a beautiful restaurant at mai Kong river. Tamtig I will go live there someday you guys should go to there. Sometimes 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yes, Lao is a pretty good place to be at the time being. I wish you well 🙏
My cousin owns a hotel in Vang Vieng, but I haven’t been there yet.
That poor kid in the back….keeps holding his head lol…cheers guys I luv it…
yes your wife is very pretty Todd...lucky man.....
Back to your happy self! At least at the beginning! LMAO
We used to walk across the pipe at the bridge near Nan's!
Bet you bought that guy a beer!
Have you been up there in the wet? Just curious.
Let's do a new Sakura bar on your land...if we build it they will come....
Hmmm now that would be goooood 🤔
todd, funny that you stop at km-52 market because most of my mother's siblings and her side of families and relatives reside in front and back of the market, thanks for sharing. yea, mate, they fucked up that riverbank with that road more accidents will happen noticed that young man was crossing with a tray of food. my brother's favorite saying is "unbelievable!" i hate to say this, but the next thing that they will fuck up for the worse is tearing some of the backdrop mountains down and make cement.
Despite...those beautiful rock mountain behind Vieng Vang are breath taking. Only heard about this town from my dad who left in the 70s after the war. Its changed enough for me to finally want to visit. I never wanted to go there due to stories.
Hi ReineMarie.. they are absolutely stunning and photos or video do not do them justice. Laos is a beautiful and very welcoming place, im sure you will love it. 🙏
@@NowinLao True, I've seen great videos. I know its hard to leave memories u had but change is good too. It means Lao is more inviting now. I really do want to visit my folk's hometown Xiangkhuong someday. Thanks again for sharing.
Shocked how Vang Vieng changed also this big hotel in the river was not there when I was there last time. Do you know when Laos will open the borders to Thailand?
No idea yet Oliver. I think they're waiting to see how we pull through June.
Funny as shit..I have commented on this before but your first part had me in stitches….ok I should be in udon sometime mid next year, will deliver you a family pack of mint slices…not the ones in me cupboard that’s nearly all gone..
Legend 💪
I was there in February, really want to go again this year.
Wow.. you got out just before the world went crazy... Should've stayed！
I left there on the last flight out.
Fav line.........I'm not saying anything, we are going guys!!!!
sad about that road !!
Not thought through at all.. ruined the whole feel of the place
without knowing 100%, to me it looks like a levee bank to perhaps help control flooding.... someone may have signed off on the funding / design without knowing about the view..... something the chinese would do... another good video
I was there 20 yrs ago ! Unable to recognise a anything mate !
My first time was 2014, massive changes in those few years, you'd have no chance recognizing anything. Damn shame. We both know what drew ppl there, and it wasn't infrastructure 😏
Is Kilometre 52 still a Hmong settlement or have the Lao Loum moved in?
1:02 Very.
wow, that road sucks. hanging out on those platforms would be like eating in a ditch at the side of the road now. And, i'm putting even money on the rains washing a good portion of that road out.
I hope it washes the whole bloody thing away! You couldn't imagine how one thing could change a place so much. It just does not feel the same anymore 😔
it sterilized that whole bank of the river
What is the purpose for the traffic street coming right through there? Thats just craaaazy. Vang Vieng doesn't need anymore developments, soon the natural beauty of Vang vieng will no longer be.
I like the old dirt road with the huts higher up better. I’m pissed off watching the changed. I like changes, but for the better. I don’t think this was for the better.
We agree to agree then. I was pissed also!
Hits could progress
Oh... 1' 50" Plastic Bertrand ... Rock n roll... ;)
Love that shit！ Great road trip track 👌
As the Beatles wrote " There are places I'll remember all my life though some have changed, some some for better, some forever. In my life I loved them all". I suppose God gave us memories to remember the better. I do understand your disappointment. I hope the chinese ccp are not planning a takeover.
hey mate, I never touch foot old homeland 35 or more yr. When you show road pave? what the f was that? it changing want to go there before I die.
Then get your ass here man, do it before the beauty is destroyed 🙏
Laos can't improve?
Damned right she looks beautiful. Good man
OMG all the quiet breakfast , lunch, and dinner venues on the river walk is totally ruined. Vang Vieng is now fly over city.
Yep. The road noice was way too loud. Could hear it inside our hotel room 😏
They have destroyed the place!
@@NowinLao Let alone all the dust in the food.
The next ghost town? Will tourists still want to go there? Still have the other things outside the city. Unless those change as well.
All the backgrounds look really Misty, is that the camera or is that the pollution that in the mist
Are there any golf courses in this area?
Hi Todd! 🙏🏽
Mr Luis!! How are you Bro... How's things going?
All good here, all good 😋👍
Mr Luis!! How are you Bro... How's things going?
All good here, all good 😋👍
Wow! $2.00 to fix a tire, and they take off, and put on for you.
I live in Hawaii, and that would cost $35.00
Hahaha ! why Disappointment in Vang Vieng Laos ? I think you really a good time .
You can't stop progress except if it collapses within itself and Only Time will tell if that will ever happen and progress is always run by its government and if you think about it the only way it would be if Government collapses within itself
29:05 All of a sudden i feel like a Milkshake.....
😝
Do u know tad lo ?
French man name loic from fendi guesthouse
Stay there many years
Much liked from local cuz doing a lot of good things for them
Just a idea
If u do not mind
Go there meet him
And u will can make nice video too sure
He will tell u what to see what to do
Again just a idea
Anyway
I love ur video
Keep on
Love lao
Koi hak lao
Yeah, they fkd that place. Some bastard somewhere cleaned up on the deal.
Definitely! 😏
Hi, so the boarders of Laos is open now for visitors?
No, not yet... Maybe July. No word yet
That is how you destroy a character of a small town. There is literally nothing on these side of the river what would need a proper street.... probably they build it as a fast track to north vang vieng.... they better build a second lane at the namsong bridge... would be much more useful.
My thoughts exactly! 😔
Who's the guy in the back mate?
Question ❔ is will the railway bring Chinese tourists in, or will they go past vv at 200 mph. Like the road they built between Thailand 🇹🇭 and Vietnam 🇻🇳 it brought only traffic passing thru. Another place in Asia spoilt by development.
Hi Peter. Yes. Vang Vieng is a designated stopping point for the high speed rail with a large platform being built. Along with a huge dual carriage way from Vientiane under construction also to be opened at around the same time (end 2021). With the new road coming from the south, why could they have not put a new river crossing on the southern end also and left the river front alone... Doesn't make sense driving past the town to cross the river on the northern side only to drive back down along the river front.. 🤔
I'm afraid you're right mate... destroyed 😐
@@NowinLao they never learned from Thailand 🇹🇭 and cambodia 🇰🇭 package 📦 Chinese tourists spend no money 💰 in the local economy, just leave the rubbish behind and go.
If you read books and have some basic knowledge, you should remember that America left more bombs in Laos. Thank you
I thought I was Aussie... THIS bloke is Aussie!
The landscape looks awful. The new road does not even have a sidewalk for pedestrians.
I hear you. I was there last year year. Why pave paradise? Looks shit now
Mega shit！
The Mekong River has been dammed on the China border,so water levels are going to be low
This is the Xong river 😝 we're nowhere near the Mekong. Plus, it is just before the rainy season...the most dry time of year, rivers are always at their lowest at this time
@@NowinLao sorry my stupid mistake but hey keep smiling I'm just dumb ass haha love it work . I'll explore this region in the future , thanks to your great informative Look at Laos, inspiring stuff
@@jennymark7403 you'll love it! 👌
ເວ້າພາສາລາວແນ່
$15-$20 for flat tire fix in new York including bad attitude
Who's sitting behind shirtless...🤔
Koko. Neenee's son
Why he's not your son...😜
Hi Todd local people living in the villages on the opposite of the Nam Song River from Vang Vieng Town have suffered for many years due to the hiked up prices to cross the wooden bridge which is privately owned local people simply cannot afford 15,000 Kip to cross the river each time for many years local people have been up in arms demanded government intervention hence the reason for the new road the government funded the cost of a new bridge a little further uptown which is free to cross for everyone hence the reason for the new road it’s also allowed other business to set along the road side giving additional opportunities to locals I’ve lived in Vang Vieng for quite some time and too be honest I’ve witnessed a lot of happy local people if the private bridge owners lowered there prices nothing would have changed as your aware the new railway will also be finished late 2021 that’s another story however it will hopefully bring much needed additional business into Laos let’s see mate...!!!
So putting the bridge 2km upstream and building a road right along the river front destroying one of the most scenic views in Laos was the only option..? I don't think so. The majority of people coming into Vang Vieng by car will be from the south (Vientiane). Just like the new road entering the township of Vang Vieng is. Why not build the new bridge on the southern side near the new road and leave the river front as is.
You want the tourists to travel there to help the local economy? ...then don't destroy the reason they are drawn there in the first place.
Yes agree the new road is an eye sore and yes we both know there’s far better options in terms of a location for a bridge I was simply pointing out the demands of the local people needing free access across the Nam Song can’t say too much about why & who decided on what’s been finally constructed there is another across before you reach Vang Vieng but it’s quite a drag on a bad road okay with a 4x4 or motorcycle but difficult in a standard saloon car
Cheers...!!!’
Yep I'm spiking with you, massive Lu dissapointment!!!😠😠😠😠
Don't expect Laos to be like your own country ...mite !!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching Sunny 👋😁
I have been VV 6 times. Whenever I went there, I was disappointed on something new. Yeah they built new road across Namsong river, destroyed my favorite view. Ugly overpass high-speed railroads? I bet Chinese did that. Sakura is closed(hope not gone), the good old Thavonsouk hotel is gone, I heard. Well, what can I say? Nothing last forever. I don't blame Lao people.
Yes, exactly how I feel. Everytime it was something else disappointing, never something positive. Such a beautiful place and each time i visited was something that ruined that beauty a little more. Besides the road, my biggest gripe about the place was building that big ugly Amari hotel right on the river front shading most of the town from the magnificent view. Like yourself, no, i don't blame the Lao people. Most that we have spoken to do not like these changes either, but somebody is to blame for such poor decision making. Yes, new access was needed across the river but destroy one of the best views on Laos in the process....really. As one subscriber said...VV is quickly becoming a fly over city. Losing its appeal 😔
Thanks for your input 🙏
Ha! i have 2 routes for you, Ai Todd.
drive.google.com/open?id=1BobV_ABjceLC_6N11VhX6Swe0Ud16zEw&usp=sharing
and
drive.google.com/open?id=1aWpZODlJEDB5V2DTmBHSj-0sQFbx3-0t&usp=sharing
And I agree with your rant! Vang Vieng is great - but building a road in the middle of the tourist spot? I have to ask "ເປັນຫຍັງ?"
sok dii der!
New video how you live in dirt. Haha
Wow...that is sooo funny. I am literally rolling around on the floor..
@@NowinLao wow bro y they dnt clean that place up. If they had such thing as dirt cancer you will get it. Lol
@@gs46 Hmmm I'm getting the impression you don't understand what "developing country" or "3rd world" means.. 🤔
@@NowinLao ok that good you an I think only you can see the light at the end of that tunnel. Good luck in ur generation. Lol friends bro