Laos Travel Guide: A list of the best travel guides and blogs on Laos

Laos Travel Guide

June 29, 2013 By James Clark

Travel Guides > Laos Travel Guide

Destination Guides

Luang Prabang

Savannakhet

Vientiane

Accommodation

Laos hotels – Search for discount hotels in Laos with lowest rates guaranteed.

Travel Guides

tourismlaos.org – Laos’ official tourism website.

Blogs

Explore Laos – Stories about travel experiences, festivals, developments, reviews and funny happenings. Written by local workers, expats and travellers working in travel related fields.

Eat Drink Laos – Australian freelance journalist based in Vientiane, blogging about food, travel and life in Laos.

Tours

Laos Tours – Tours and things to do hand-picked by Viator.

Books

A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick.

The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. Kurlantzick gives us the definitive account of the Laos war and its central characters, based on extensive interviews and CIA records only recently declassified.