NONG KHIAW Is Overrated 🇱🇦 Laos

Nong Khiaw has become an extremely popular tourist destination here in Northern Laos, so much that you see more foreigners here walking around than local people, this video is pretty much my honest impressions of Nong Khiaw wether people like it or not!

I started the day with a hotel tour, for $15 a night we stayed in a beautiful room with a river view and terrace, the hotel was beautiful but the owner was so greedy I really do not recommend the 'nam Ou River Lodge'

The owner tried to change our thai baht at the worst exchange rate ever even though we are paying to stay at his hotel, the hotel doesn't even offer tea coffee or water - even $3 a night hotels in Laos offer these things which is strange.

For breakfast we ate at the most popular khao soi noodle stall in all nong khiaw, this place is always heaving with locals and at 15k lao kip it is incredible cheap aswell as delicious.

Don't buy any bus tickets through hotels or tour company's, always buy direct from bus stations it is so much cheaper. Again our hotel kept trying to sell us things and give us wrong information so we would buy overpriced rubbish.

Grabbed an iced green tea from a lovely lady in nong khiaw Town before having a little honest chat about what tourism does to places and how it damages them/changes the whole atmosphere of these small towns.

As the sun set we headed out for a walk around the beautiful nong khiaw town to show you how incredible and old school life in rural lao is. This has to be one of the most picturesque towns in all of Laos for sure its crazy beautiful.

Ended the day with some cheap local lao food from the street grill round the corner from us, sometimes you can't beat sticky rice, grilled meat and a local lao dip.

Not everything is amazing and I won't pretend it is I'm honest, if I feel something is off I'll tell you it is what it is. This is the reason why we usually visit less touristy destinations, that way we generally never ever have a bad experience and meet amazing locals.

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0:00 $15 Hotel Tour (I Wouldn't Stay Again)
4:30 Greedy Robbing Hotel Owner
6:59 $0.90 Local Noodles
11:45 Scammy Hotel Bus Tickets
13:15 Getting A Iced Green Tea
14:44 My Honest Thoughts On Tourism
17:58 Bringing The Goats Home
19:50 Old School Life In Lao
23:04 The Most Picturesque Town In Lao?
24:29 Street Grills For Tea

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