Tag: Luang Prabang
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Avani to welcome Luang Prabang, Laos, property in March
The hotel is situated on the doorstep of the famous night market where guests will find locally made appliqué blankets, Hmong batik fabrics, lamps, wall hangings, silver jewellery and unusual paper. “Luang Prabang has long been a bucket-listed … Read Full Article
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Minor Hotels Group to Take Over Management of Luxury Hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos
The hotel is situated on the doorstep of the famous night market where guests will find locally made appliqué blankets, Hmong batik fabrics, lamps, wall hangings, silver jewellery and unusual paper. The hotel will offer a variety of excursions including a … Read Full Article
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Luang Prabang: Laos’ golden city
The villages were a mosaic of tribal ethnicities – Hmong, Yao, Lahu and Akha peoples. Each village, each tribe, had its own traditions of weaving, its own distinctive dress and its own religious practises involving spirit houses and ancestor worship. Read Full Article
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Life in Luang Prabang’s slow lane
Wat Xieng Thong is a fine example of traditional architecture. Ting Cave is home to 2,500 Buddha images. Hundreds of local and Hmong vendors offer a wide range of handicrafts and souvenirs at the night market, situated at the foot of Phousi Hill. Read Full Article
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The languid lure of Luang Prabang
For those who have to buy something while on holiday, there is the night market which is packed with stalls selling handicrafts like fabric books, paper lamps or indigo-dyed textiles made by the Hmong Lao tribe in the region. By day, walk down Savavong … Read Full Article
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Good Morning, Vietnam
The locals up here in the mountains are largely from Hmong tribes, which I learned about in the Traditional Arts & Ethnology Centre (TAEC) in Luang Prabang. The Hmong can be found all over northern Laos and Vietnam; and in Ta Van, ladies in lovely … Read Full Article
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Luang Prabang in 3 Days: Where to Go & What to Do
If you have more time, feel free to go dancing in a Lao disco, stay overnight with the Hmong Hill Tribes or even embark on a rafting or mountain biking expedition. Otherwise, there’s always a next time! Brought to you by the Changi Airport Group. Read Full Article
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Famed hotelier Adrian Zecha launches Azerai Luang Prabang in Laos’ tourism hotspot
Local materials such as timber and cement tiles are complemented by artwork, hand-stitched fabric and batik inspired by the designs and techniques used by the Hmong Lao tribe. An Aman resort in picturesque, historic Lijiang – away from the tourist hordes … Read Full Article
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Kuang Si Falls
Spectacular vistas with tiered fields. We made a quick stop in a local Hmong village, one of the ethnic minorities of northern Laos. Our final destination was the Kuang Si Falls, the largest waterfalls in Luang Prabang. The falls begin in shallow pools … Read Full Article
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Adrian Zecha’s new venture Azerai opens in Luang Prabang, Laos
and local artwork like hand-stitched batik textiles designed using the techniques of the region’s Hmong Lao tribe. It lies approximately 350 meters above sea level in northern Laos at the confluence of the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers. Crowned by … Read Full Article
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10 Things to Do & Places to Go in Luang Prabang
So learn from the Lao women the craftsmanship, and try bamboo weaving or making your own Hmong batik. The Ock Pop Tok Heritage also sells woven crafts made by Lao women weavers from many distant rural villages, helping them make a living. There’s no … Read Full Article
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Taking it slow in Luang Prabang
Laos has about 80 different ethnic groups with colourful differences in their customs and traditional dress. In Luang Prabang, Lao, Hmong and Khmu are the main ethnicities. Some worry that their cultural practices are disappearing in the effort to cater … Read Full Article
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Annual Hmong festival a huge matchmaking party
LUANG PRABANG, Laos — An annual Hmong festival that takes place in a small Laotian village is also a huge matchmaking party. The festival, held on New Year’s Day according to the Hmong calendar, took place in early January this year in Phousang Kham … Read Full Article
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Thailand and Laos – day fifteen (Luang Prabang to Chiang Mai, Thursday)
Time for that last minute shopping! There was a small shop further up the road selling goods that were repurposed from Hmong clothing. Clare and I chose a wall hanging and some cushions covers, each with fabric that combined indigo batik and embroidery. Read Full Article
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Thailand and Laos – day twelve (Luang Prabang, Monday)
While Stella continued to weave I was able to tour around the Centre and examine the exquisite batik being carried out by Mae, a Hmong woman. Wax is applied to hemp fabric in intricately detailed patterns, then the fabric dyed with indigo. It can then … Read Full Article
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A few thoughts occasioned by seeing Vietnam and Laos
I have never seen such abject poverty as that I observed in a Hmong village just outside of Luang Prabang. The Hmong live in primitive wooden shacks built on clay soil that turns into slick, gooey mud when it rains. Through open doors we could see cooking … Read Full Article
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Of freedom and frangipanis
I grimace. She returns to her calculator. I nod. And we conclude the deal to our mutual satisfaction. Haggling is serious business at the Hmong Night Market in Luang Prabang, a serene little town in north-central Laos, at the confluence of the Mekong and … Read Full Article
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Laid-back in Luang Prabang
Our guide Yae, a lawyer and gentleman farmer at his Hmong home fields when he takes a break from being a genial xenagogue, informed us that tourism is the next best income generator in Laos after agriculture, this last heavily dependent on the cultivation … Read Full Article