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   L’Atelier at the Pullman Luang Prabang is offering a Saturday BBQ Dinner Buffet and a Sunday Brunch Buffet every week for $30 per person.

  Reported by RFA’s Lao Service.   Moves in Laos to promote Chinese tourism in the coming year will benefit mainly Chinese businesses already established in the impoverished Southeast Asian country, with ordinary Lao citizens less likely to cash in, Lao sources say. According to Radio Free Asia Laos, Laos and China are now preparing … Read more

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  Free the Bears saved a record breaking 11th bear in Laos for the year (10 Lao rescues in 2017) in a tricky rooftop rescue. The team had to coax a young male moon bear down from a roof after the owner threw a tantrum and released him from his cage. They managed to retrieve … Read more

  Contributed by TTR Weekly Lao Airlines is introducing a scheduled flight that will wing in Chinese tourists from Changsha to this World Heritage town.   Due to start 31 October, the weekly flight is scheduled every Wednesday, but is not  bookable on the airline’s website.   The service will use an A320-210 aircraft configured … Read more

  by Ekaphone Phouthonesy Outspan, one of the major world coffee producers and suppliers, is planning to expand its coffee plantations in the southern Laos Champasak Province as the demand for coffee consumption in the world shoots up, according to a company official. “We have already invested US$30 million in Laos and are now preparing … Read more

  Luang Prabang’s Le Calao Restaurant is celebrating International Chefs Day and Boun Ork Phansa (End of Buddhist Lent) with Chef Khamphaeng’s Tasting Menu from 20-25 October, with free Kratongs for the Light Boats Festival on the final day. Chef Khamphaeng has created a set menu with eight of his grandmother’s original dishes for LAK … Read more

  The Lao Handicrafts Association (LHA) is holding the Lao Handicrafts Festival from 27 October -3 November at Lao-ITECC, with more than 200 exhibitors expected to display their wares. Artisans from around the country will be selling a wide range of handmade products including textiles, jewellery, non-timber forest products, recycled and wood products, pottery and … Read more

  The Traditional Arts & Ethnology Centre (TAEC) in Luang Prabang has opened the “Voices of the Wind: Traditional Instruments in Laos” exhibition, after more than two years of extensive research and documentation in remote regions of northern Laos.   Belgian ethnomusicologist and curator, Dr Marie-Pierre Lissoir, and the TAEC research team led the project … Read more

  Luang Prabang welcomed 540,542 tourists in the first eight months of 2018, up 20.25% over the same period in 2017. Of the total, 408,700 were foreign visitors, according to provincial official, Soulathip Norkhounphon. He credited activities related to Visit Laos Year for the rise, but noted the number could have been higher had the … Read more