I hope you enjoy my Laos travel blog (even if you aren’t diabetic!) I offer tips for diabetic travel which can be valuable for people without diabetes as well. Safe and healthy travel is great for all of us!
As a part of our 63-day Southeast Asia Odyssey, we visited Laos in December 2017. We spent a total of eight days in Luang Prabang, Phonsavon, Vang Vieng, and Vientiane. We selected Backyard Travel as our travel agency.
As in every Southeast Asia country we visited, we just wished we could have seen more and stayed longer.
Thank you for visiting my Laos Travel Blog. We visited Laos as part of our sometimes dependent, sometimes independent, 65-day Southeast Asia Odyssey from November 2017 to January 2018. Specifically we visited Laos from Dec 25 to Jan 2. We arrived in Luang Prabang via Vietnam Airlines on December 25th,
If any country in our Southeast Asia Odyssey required us to purchase medical and evacuation travel insurance, Laos was it. My studies of healthcare in Laos led me to understand how challenged the country’s healthcare system is, and how prevalent such diseases as malaria and dengue fever are. These statements
When we travel, each night I download our photos to our tiny laptop. We select the best of the day and create a photo collage, and email it off to family and friends, and post it on Facebook – kind of like a newfangled postcard. This means that I have
We learned in Laos from the locals that the country is called “Lao” (instead of Laos), and that the people are also called called “Lao” (instead of “Laotians”). What I don’t know is whether to spell it “Laos” and not pronounce the “s”, or whether to spell it “Lao.” Irregardless,
I had already selected Backyard Travel for our Cambodia portion of our 65-day Southeast Asia Odyssey, so it was easy to carefully consider and select Backyard Travel for the Laos portion as well. We settled on the “Traverse Laos” itinerary, adding in a three day detour to the Plain of Jars. I
Hello, my name is Wendy Kirkwood Powers and this is my travel blog with travel tips and travel stories for diabetics and non-diabetics alike. |
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I am a type 1 diabetic, and have been for fifty-three years. From Antarctica to Svalbard, Australia to Africa, I’ve visited every continent. With my husband Greg, I have been on safari to Africa, wandered among the blue boobies in the Galapagos, slogged through jungle mud in Laos, and he has even chased an ocelot in Costa Rica (with his camera!) Our travel has taken careful planning, and constant attention to what is most important. I want to give you the inspiration and travel tips to enable you also to look beyond your own personal challenges, to not hide behind those words “I could never” and to see the world. |
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