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The city of Luang Prabang will hold its annual boat racing festival this month, with huge crowds expected to cheer on the crews at the much-anticipated event.Luang Prabang city governor, Mr Chansouk Phandolak, told Vientiane Times yesterday the festival will take place over four days.The first race ...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Xieng Khuang provincial authorities in Laos plan to install more facilities at the Plain of Jars to make the area more visitor friendly, in anticipation of a tourist influx following its listing as a World Heritage Site this year.During a ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Tad Xai waterfall in Borikhamxay province is not just a place to go for the wonderful scenery, a picnic, and the waterfall itself, but is also a great place for trekking.In training for a Vangvieng Trail hike at the end of ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The start of charter flights between Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, China, and Vientiane is expected to spark greater cooperation in tourism, trading and investment between Laos and China.A ceremony to inaugurate the new flight took place last week in Hangzhou.More ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – A group of Japanese experts say the little known Phaka cave in Namfeuang village, Maed district, Vientiane province, could be the largest cave in Laos.The cave, which is located on the Namfeuang River, has been explored by the Japanese over the past ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Progress is being made in the application for the Hin Nam Nor National Protection Area (Stone Forest) in Khammuan province to be recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage Site.The message was conveyed by the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, ...

The number of tourists visiting Laos has increased 5 percent in the past six months thanks to a rise in the number of Chinese visitors.More than 2.2 million people visited Laos between January and June, according to Laos’s Tourism Development Department, Ministry of Information, Culture ...

The Visit Laos-China Year 2019 tourism promotion has proved successful in driving up visitor numbers, according to tourism officials.More than 2.2 million people visited Laos in the first six months of this year, up about 5 percent compared to last year, according to the Tourism ...

Officials from the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism and the Culture and Tourism Department of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region met in Vientiane on Wednesday to further promote tourism in the two countries. A seminar on tourism in Guangxi was led by the Deputy ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – An official celebration of the Plain of Jars’ inscription on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) list of World Heritage Sites is slated for March 22, 2020, in Xieng Khuang province during the opening ceremony of the National ...