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Asia travel ideas and resources

When you’re staring at a map of Asia, it can be hard to decide where you’re going to go and what you’re going to do. Here’s some Asia travel ideas and resources to help you get past the map and onto the plane.

The Pha That Luang Festival in Vientiane, Laos

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Envision thousands of monks, wrapped in bright-orange robes and aligned in rows that extend to the rising Golden Stupa, with tens of thousands of Laotians prostrated in front of them. This is the Pha That Luang Festival in Vientiane, Laos.

stray backpacker bus thailand laos buddha statue with little gilding left

Straying through Thailand and Laos

We begin our journey on the Stray backpacker bus in Thailand, heading for Laos on the Tom Yum pass. Our first tour in over four years of full-time travel.