Laos knows even ancient tourists enjoy an ancient city
Travel to Laos
If Laos is your next vacation destination, you will need our travel guide, for its excellent travel tips, extensive insight into the very diverse ethnic lifestyles and traditions, and of course, also for tips on getting the most out of your Laos vacation.
UNESCO has declared the Ancient City of Luang Prabang, and Vat Phou Temple Complex as World Heritage sites. The royal throne and some remarkable royal artefacts can be found at the Royal Palace Museum in Luang Prabang.
That Luang stupa, the most remarkable and largest stupa in Laos, is to be found in Vientiane, the capital of Laos.
Visit famous limestone mountains and beautiful caves in the Huaphanh region.
Although Phongsaly is famous for its handcrafted silver jewellery, and its weaving and embroidery, it is not the only place to buy handcrafted items and souvenirs. There is a large variety of wooden craft items, textiles, silver and gold items, and precious stones available throughout Laos. Do remember that it is forbidden to take any antiques or Buddha images that are older than 50 years out of the country.
The That Luang Festival is held in mid-November every year, and features many religious rites and a fair. The people of Laos are honest, friendly, respectful and courteous, and welcome visitors who display similar traits. Please remind the women in your family or group that it is forbidden for women to touch Buddhist monks.
Laos is home to more than 800 bird species, including peafowl, hornbills, ibis, and silver pheasant. Tigers, leopards, gibbon, and the Irrawaddy dolphin are found amongst the over 100 large mammal species found in Laos.
Spicy food is typical in Laos, and you will need to try the heavy sticky Laos rice with meat, chicken or fish, and vegetables. The Laos cultural heritage and the bio-diversity of the region will ensure that your vacation is unusual and memorable.
Lao NEWS On LNTV: On January 20 every year is Lao Army Day.20/1/2015
VO On January 20 every year, Lao people everywhere delight in celebrating Lao Army Day
INTRO: On January 20 every year, Lao people everywhere delight in celebrating Lao Army Day, which commemorates the establishment of the Lao People's Army to defend the country against foreign aggressors. To celebrate the day, we proudly present the special story on “Lao People's Army fulfils duties of national protection and development”
STORY: The Lao People's Army, known originally as the Lao Issara Army, was officially established on January 20, 1949, in Laohoung Phiengsa zone in Xiengkhor district, Huaphan province, by the President Kaysone Phomvihane, who was also the army commander. The force was established to repel foreign powers and regain ownership of the country after many decades of foreign domination.
According to a document issued by the Lao Party Central Committee of Training Propaganda, from 1954-1959 the revolutionary forces consolidated their bases in the strongholds of Phongsaly and Huaphan provinces, building up weapons caches and personnel for the fight for peace and national unity.
The Party views the protection of national security as its major duty, and under its supervision the Lao People's Army carries out related tasks. The army seeks to encourage solidarity among all ethnicities to protect the new regime.
The military forces continue to fight against common enemies and work at the grassroots level in each locality to encourage people to participate in maintaining public security, and building and improving the administrative power of the revolutionaries.
President Kaysone Phomvihane said the army's main task is to lead the country in overcoming all difficulties and fulfilling every duty, and to triumph over enemies. The army is without doubt the powerful heart of the revolution and a sharp tool of the Party.
Walking in Muang Xay / Oudomxai ( ເມືອງໄຊ /老挝乌多姆赛省芒赛), Laos, 2019
Muang Xay (Lao: ເມືອງໄຊ), also referred to as Oudomxai, is the capital city of Oudomxai Province, Laos.
The residents of the town are mainly Lao Loum with the presence of the ethnic group Khmu, 60% of the province's population, and Hmong, 15% of the provincial population.
Muang Xay is in a mountain basin between green hills. Two opposed hills soar above the town. On one is the Oudomxay Museum, on the other one is a Buddhist temple with a stupa.
Oudomxay Province has a moderate monsoon climate. Due to its relatively high elevation, there are more variations in temperature during the year and a colder dry season in northern Laos than in the rest of the country. Yearly precipitation is about 1,900–2,600 mm.
Lao NEWS on LNTV: What do Lao expatriates think of their homeland?2/3/2016
VO What do Lao expatriates think of their homeland?
INTRO: Hundreds of people of Lao origin living in various countries abroad are visiting their homeland to attend the 40th National Day celebrations on December 2. For this special occasion, our news team asked some of them about their feelings and opinions on their motherland.
STORY: Over 60 people of Lao origin living abroad have been invited to attend the 40th anniversary celebrations, allowing them to see firsthand the rapid changes in the country's development since leaving decades ago.
The 40th anniversary is a landmark in Laos this year and an opportune time to reflect on the history of Laos and the ethnic Lao people's brave fight against the foreign colonialists to protect their territory and bring independence and freedom to the Lao people.
The event also aims to review the accomplishments of national protection and development over the past 40 years.
In addition, over 60 people of Lao origin living abroad have been invited to attend the event, allowing them to see firsthand the rapid changes in the country's development since leaving decades ago.
Many left Laos after 1975 to live in other countries including France, the US, Australia, Canada and so on but they have been inspired to revisit their home-country and relatives here in Laos.
In addition, more than 1,400 respected elderly people across the country are gathering in Vientiane to discuss and review the roles they play in community development and in educating local people. Their gathering is part of activities to mark the celebration of the 40th anniversary.
Lao NEWS on LNTV: Laos hopes of achieving fundamental poverty reduction.30/4/2015
VO Under Party leadership, Laos hopes of achieving fundamental poverty reduction and graduating from Least Developed Country status
INTRO: Laos is actively implementing its poverty reduction strategy in the hope of achieving fundamental poverty reduction and graduating from Least Developed Country status. This special report is one of a series telecasted in Lao National Television English Language News Bulletin to mark the 60th anniversary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party on March 22.
STORY: Over the past 60 years the living standards of Laos' multi-ethnic population have steadily improved and poverty eradication has been a priority issue for the Party, state and people jointly.
The Lao National Committee for Rural Development and Poverty Eradication reported recently that the poverty rate nationwide has fallen year by year and the number of individual households officially classified as poor has steadily declined. There are now 30 districts classified as poor out of the total 148, compared to 47 in 2010.
As Laos moves closer to eradicating poverty by 2020, implementation of the Party's Three Builds (Sam Sang) directive has become instrumental in driving rural development and improving villagers' living standards.
The directive was laid down in the Resolution of the 9th Party Congress. It spells out how provinces are to be built up as strategic units, districts as comprehensively strengthened units, and villages as development units.
In recent years the government has spent 248 billion kip on 943 projects to boost infrastructure development and promote agricultural production among people in 109 villages of the 51 districts under Sam Sang initiatives. Since the Three Builds directive came into force, all of the target villages have developed year by year and villagers' circumstances have improved noticeably.
The Resolution sets an ambitious goal to reduce the number of poor families to less than 10 percent of the total population by 2015 and advance the country further towards graduating from Least Developed Country status by 2020.
To help Laos achieve this goal, the Poverty Reduction Fund was set up in 2002, initially financed by the World Bank. The Fund has carried out community-based activities in Phongsaly, Oudomxay, Xieng Khuang, Luang Prabang, Luang Namtha, Huaphan, Savannakhet, Xekong, Saravan and Attapeu provinces, covering 42 districts.
The objective of the Fund is to help villagers to develop community infrastructure and gain improved access to services, build capacity and empower villagers in poor districts to plan, manage and implement their own public investments in a decentralised and transparent manner, and strengthen local institutions to support participatory decision-making and conflict resolution processes at the village and district level. This involves a broad range of villagers, including women, the poor, and ethnic groups.
From 1975 until the present, the Party's development efforts have focused on many areas, including the economy, socio-cultural growth, infrastructure, poverty reduction, health, education, tourism, information, investment and law-making. All of these areas have seen improvement in parallel with the country's overall development.
Thailande (TLC-21) Ethnies
Visite des différentes ethnies du nord de la Thailande, les hmong yao lao lahus lisus.
Visit to the ethnic groups.
Marco Polo ou le voyage imaginaire
Hill Tribe Village South Laos
Hill Tribe Village South Laos
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, with local control exercised by warlords until the 1930s. From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of majority Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.
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00:02:28 1 History
00:02:37 1.1 Prehistory
00:03:07 1.2 Pre-Nanzhao period
00:06:10 1.3 Nanzhao period
00:11:11 1.4 Dali Kingdom
00:12:15 1.5 Ming and Qing dynasties
00:14:43 1.6 Post-Imperial
00:16:26 1.7 Naturalists
00:17:40 2 Geography
00:18:48 2.1 Geology
00:20:06 2.2 Paleontology
00:20:24 2.3 Climate
00:21:52 2.4 Topography
00:23:30 2.5 Borders
00:24:21 2.6 Lakes
00:25:14 2.7 Rivers
00:26:52 2.8 Biodiversity
00:29:28 2.9 Designation
00:30:19 2.10 Natural resources
00:32:09 2.10.1 Drought
00:32:41 3 Scenic areas
00:32:51 3.1 National parks
00:33:12 3.2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
00:33:48 4 Governance
00:33:56 4.1 Administrative divisions
00:34:37 4.1.1 Urban areas
00:34:45 4.2 Politics
00:38:28 5 Demographics
00:38:37 5.1 Ethnicity
00:40:34 5.2 Languages
00:42:05 5.3 Literacy
00:42:41 5.4 Religion
00:44:22 6 Agriculture
00:47:14 7 Economy
00:52:59 7.1 Economic and Technological Development Zones
00:58:04 8 Education
01:00:37 9 Health
01:00:57 9.1 HIV-AIDS
01:01:09 10 Transport
01:01:18 10.1 Railways
01:03:55 10.2 Burma Road
01:05:29 10.3 Highways
01:07:34 10.3.1 Expressways
01:08:57 10.4 Waterways
01:09:57 10.5 Airports
01:10:55 10.6 Bridges
01:11:44 10.7 Metro
01:12:02 11 Culture
01:13:08 11.1 Eighteen Oddities of Yunnan
01:13:17 11.2 Cuisine
01:13:25 11.3 Tea
01:13:53 11.4 Music
01:14:01 11.5 Chinese medicine
01:14:22 11.6 Tourism
01:17:53 11.7 Places of interest
01:18:29 11.8 Sport
01:18:55 12 See also
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of China. Located in Southwest China, the province spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 47.368 million (as of 2015). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, as well as the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, followed by the Ming dynasty.
From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.