First Day In LAOS And THIS HAPPENED!!
what's going on my beautiful people welcome to Vientiane Laos I just arrived here at the airport actually it didn't just arrive it took me forever at the immigration the line was so long it took forever but I'm here now I made it and first thing I need is a SIM card hello Sai uh SIM card can I exchange money exchange money I said money you can send at the bank at the bank okay I come back how much for uh how many day seven seven days seven day 7 Day enough 20 GB okay s s s what's that 100 100 100,000 okay I come back thank you thank you all right so I got to go exchange money at this bank here so uh just so you guys know if you come to Laos make sure you get a e visa do not wait on the line that thing is so long it took me almost over an hour it's just uh you know should have expected it but any who it is what it is I'm going to exchange money and then get a SIM card and then be on my way $1 is 21,000 Kip approximately 21,000 so I'm already a millionaire guys I made it mama is this the best yes then MO one number one in law you heard them number one in Laos one okay uh do you have anything less than 100,000 100,000 you have 20 GB 20 GB and what about like anything less less than that like maybe 50,000 60,000 something like that 50 yes what do you have I just want to see uh package price 10 so this one 30 days 20 GB 60,000 it's his packet it's his total 60,000 ah okay okay okay so I'll do the the one you say for 100,000 total 100,000 mhm 100,000 okay thank you mobile phone mobile phone and your passport and my passport okay this my first time in Lao welcome to La thank you all right guys so SIM card cost me about 100,000 Kip which is like little bit less than five bucks and here we are guys at Wattay International Airport and boy is it hot so quiet though compared to other capital cities that I've been to in Southeast Asia there's a very slow pace here and that's what Laos is known for it's a slow paced country and you know what I like that sometimes you got to slow it down but anywh who grab doesn't work here so there's an app called Loca LCA and that's that's what I'm using I was able to set my card up and I'm just paying by card I don't want to use all my cash on taxis this taxi from here to my hotel it's about 4 km it's going to cost me 100 100,000 pretty much so yeah a little bit less than five bucks uh pretty fair price if you ask me but yeah guys here we are in Laos it's such a pleasure to be here my first time and you know there is nothing like the first time right and um I look forward to exploring Vientiane and other parts of Laos as well but as I mentioned the Vientiane itself is the capital city even this city is so slow and doesn't have too much going on so you can only imagine the outskirts of Laos but we're going to explore all the beauty there is here but yeah guys welcome to Lao let's go have some fun all righty Here I Am the Toyota Fortuner this is uh hello sir Sai okay oh very nice nice and AC what's your name my friend ning ning yes nice to meet you nice to meet you I'm going to memory Hotel okay all right it's my first time in your beautiful country you're a YouTuber yeah I'm a YouTuber I'm making a video about my first day in Lao oh where where are you from I'm from America oh but my family is originally from Pakistan yeah are you from this city of Vientiane what's special about this city what should I see in Vientiane Night Market Night Market meong Night Market meong Night Market okay it's on the river Mong River all right thank you one thing I noticed is a lot of the signs are written in French as well and I think that's because at one time the French did uh colonize Lao this whole area of Vietnam do you speak French no oh do many people in Lao speak French or just little bit a little bit Ah okay okay I guess at one time people probably did but the laan language is actually very similar to Thai so if you speak Thai and you come to Lao you can kind of get around you'll notice some words are very similar like for them they say hello like sa and in in Tai is pretty much the same thing so that's the that's the cool thing if if you know a little bit of Tai you can also come to LA and kind of use it cop J my friend thank you so much so let's go inside and check in thank you so quiet guys like really quiet for a capital city I've never uh experienced anything like this so should be uh interesting welcome to take a memory Hotel anybody at the desk oh let see anybody here all right guys that was pretty easy the guy literally just handed me the key he's like what's your name like my he's like all right take the key anyways no no elevator got to walk up the stairs here guys old school the way I like it you know keep it Gully stay humble where are we here 301 on right on the street beautiful but you know what it doesn't matter here in loud because it's so quiet I'm just going to show you guys what 20 to $25 a night gets you in venen and then we'll make our way here we are not the nicest not the cleanest not the most beautiful but you know what we got a bed we got a place to rest our head at night and what else can you ask for they give you some water oh it's a Thai company and I'm TP I guess a lot of stuff here is influenced by Thai since we're so close to Thailand guys literally uh Lao is the only landlock country in Southeast Asia so it's in the middle of Vietnam Thailand Myanmar which all have bodies of water around them but La is just crammed in between them that's why this country you know struggles the most in Southeast Asia because of its uh geography almost just like a prisoner of his geography really but it might not be rich in economically but I'm sure it's rich in culture and we're going to go find out as I step outside got a nice little view from uh my balcony here on my hotel you can see the architecture is very French Colonial mixed with obviously Asian Southeast Asian and the blend of the two just make it so nice but let's go downstairs and start exploring guys it's so nice being in a country for the first time when I tell you there's no experience like it I really mean that here's some cafes the white elephant Common Grounds a socially conscious Cafe interesting anyways let's keep going maybe we'll find something else can see the architecture here honestly walking at first glance this beautiful Temple here at first glance this literally is like a mixture of Vietnam and Thailand look at this huge Market isn't open yet but it will open probably later on probably after 5 6 p.m. once the Sun starts to go down people don't really come out here until the sun comes down because nobody's as crazy as me to be walking around here but yeah we'll check this out later maybe in maybe in a separate video we'll see but I am actually a short walk away from the only and the most important body of water here in Lao known as the mikong river some of you have probably heard of it it runs through a lot of these countries in this area you can see that right there is the Mong River and there's a little Boardwalk that kind of runs along it there's a little uh a little amusement park here as well oo that Sun hits oh man but yeah that right there guys is the Mong River it's my man sell in here guy just oh he's just packaging it little amusement park here guys if you want to come entertain yourselves this River the Mong river is very important here in Lao because it's the only body of water that can allow boats to come in and out and allow trade so since the beginning of time since Lao has been Lao uh they basically get all of their trait through the Mong so it's a very important body of water nice little Boardwalk to walk here as well the river is a bit further out though than I thought nice to meet you are you guys from venan you from Lao laan yes ah very nice Vian very nice what's your name uh what you p p yeah you want to say something I'm making a video for YouTube you can say you can say something about vnn thank you thank you than thank you so people here are a bit shy and uh you won't find I mean obviously people will speak English but not not the way you would probably expect it to be nice to meet you nice nice to meet you saiii see I'm I'm practicing my uh my Lain do you speak English little bit uh do you speak English no oh you're going to try okay it's okay maybe lie maybe lie thank you thank you I'm just trying to see if I could find someone that speaks a little bit of English to ask them where I'm going but I just to have conversation cuz I like to do that hello my bro sa uh I go p p p p you know uh p p one second I show you I'm trying to figure out where is Pat but I don't think I'm saying it right this Pai Pai sorry Pai not P yeah one way two way uh one way okay okay uh to to huh uh 150,000 K 150,000 yeah oh too much too much 130 okay 100 oh 100 okay 100 for me 120 100 okay okay c c c all right guys uh uh pun o o okay my friend o is going to take me to the next destination Cai Cai let's go this Tuk yeah tukk tukk oh this is a this is a la la tukk Tuk La Tuk La yeah okay let's go oh very good nice glasses cool all right guys so we're going to get on our way now I would walk but it's just too hot like sometimes you have to just pay the money man I'm going to roast out here in the sun if I walk all right guys we have arrived to the pat Victory Monument as you can see it is absolutely beautiful it actually resembles the French Arctic Triumph if you've ever seen it so the story basically goes since 1893 the this whole area of La Vietnam Cambodia fell into the hands of the French it was known as uh French Indochina it became a French protectorate basically they colonized this area and used them for their resources as the French have done in many places around the world and this was actually erected in the 1950s to basically symbolize their Victory and freedom of fighting off Colonial powers specifically the French Powers though Lao is not the most economically powerful country in Southeast Asia it has a rich history you know I mean in the early 7 to 13th centuries some of the strongest kingdoms and some of the strongest monarchies reigned from this area from Lao obviously over time other countries around it gain more prominence due to whatever it could be trade um economy and things like that but in the early early days early Empires this place was very very how can I say important thriving look at this they got a nice little Fountain here and this is a little tourist destination that you guys can come if you're here and it's actually really beautiful to walk around you can see and now as I walk around here it really seems that the Chinese people have taken over La I mean you see everything written in Chinese you see a lot of Chinese tourists a lot of people Chinese are actually allowed to come here pretty much Visa free you can see people are enjoying their time here hello I need some water man it is so hot SA huh 10, 10,000 10 10,000 for a water that's like a half a dollar my name Meer Mayer may may may uh thank you 10,000k see guys you can use your tie here if you speak some tie there's a really beautiful building right next to the uh PS Monument right here I think this is the prime minister's office or President Office you can see not only does it have the laian flag but it has the Communist flag as well and with this music in the background I feel like I'm in I don't know I've traveled back to like 1960s or something it really has that old vibe that you don't get in a lot of Southeast Asian countries anymore like Thailand you won't feel it like like how quiet it is how empty it is with this music almost like North Korea in a way it's so empty it's very interesting though I like it there's also a park as well known as P Pai park I think I'm saying that right if there's any La out there you can correct me if I'm wrong says China Aid so I think China helped build this part CH China CH China helped are you Chinese Chinese from China Chinese from China where I'm from I'm from Pakistan oh pakist Pakistani yeah yeah brother brother mention from Shanghai from Shanghai oh very nice okay enjoy enjoy byebye byebye yeah so I think this uh Park was actually that was my Chinese guys you see I'm a multiculture dude man I can speak a lot of languages you guys don't know man if you don't know now you know but um yeah this park was kind of aided there's a lot of Aid that comes to LA from China so a lot of investment that comes from China so there's a big Chinese influence here which is what I was trying to say before sometimes countries are just like prisoners of geography you know and obviously Thailand and Vietnam they have beaches so their tourism is higher because people want beaches people want water people want oceans and they just don't have that here so even though there is tourism here you don't see the kind of Tourism that you see in the countries that I mentioned just because of the sheer fact that they don't have beaches so sometimes countries struggle economically not because it's their fault but also just because of where they are you know on the map and another thing that people don't know about Lao is that this country was actually uh because of it's so close to Vietnam there was pretty much like a secret war that happened here in the 60s and 70s when America was fighting the Vietnam War Lao was actually one of the most bombed countries in the world by the Americans as well I'm sorry guys I know I'm American and I feel so bad about what my country does around the world but um yeah it's terrible what happened to to this country I mean they were they struggled under colonialism for a long time and then they had to deal with the bombing in a war that really they didn't take part in they were just H once again just proximity geography you know it just it stinks that they had to go through that and I'd love to see this country come up and Thrive like all of the countries around it another thing I noticed is like people don't drive very aggressively here obviously there's no traffic so I think people have less anger on the road than I've seen like in Jakarta or um Bangkok for that matter but people drive very chill here they stop for pedestrians they don't beep the horns you don't see people driving too fast it's just so chill if I can describe vien in one word it would be chill Sai sa okay can I help let me help I help you let me help you work okay we're working let's go I'm a worker now uh oh okay all right so they're putting the sticks in the back of the truck I'm going to help I help I help okay got to work got to work guys hard work hard work than you than you no problem cop byebye I just saw some guys working I'm like you know what let me help them let me help them work people are people are so chill here it's so nice you see these street signs like it's written obviously in their language I think that's laan and then obviously in English fonetic and then also you can see Ruel that's French a lot of French influence around this city look at the architecture too very apparent nice hotel here supatra Hotel I finally found a cafe that I think is open bar to Bros naked espresso ooh naked espresso sounds interesting it's down there oh look at this some random Alleyway I like getting lost in these little nooks and crannies of the city this is Cafe Amazon this is a chain that's all over Thailand and here in Lao but we're going to support the local businesses as I usually do here we are at naked espresso right hopefully they're open oh today you're closed oh no you closed at five oh no there's no chance I can get ice coffee what you want uh lat ice okay wait a minute okay thank you so much so they're closed but they're still making me a coffee that's the kindness of the people here naked espresso right yeah is this your Cafe oh no no my big boss Cafe she's the big boss I'm kidding I'm kidding she she's she's being humble I'm making a video about vienen so I wanted to show one local cafe and I saw when I was walking I saw this place so your for this my first day in V yeah welcome thank you so much it's been really nice so far the the people are really nice L loud people are very kind thank you thank you so much uh you can you can give me takeaway please yeah H how much to toai H H 60 60 okay I speak Tai a little bit but I think Lao and Tai very similar right yeah okay oh 20 okay here we go I'm still learning the money and look at this cute little cafe too on here you can see I'm just going to take a coffee to go guys I need some energy so I can keep this video going keep the energy alive let me try this coffee you like amazing very good I'm so glad I came here here's my garbage thank you so much thank you so guys when you come to uh ven you can come to naked espresso this only one right this one no no we have all oh you have many okay come support them they're very nice people thank you byebye as I'm walking around this city another thing I noticed is you don't really see tall buildings like about the tallest you'll see some of these buildings are about the tallest buildings that I've seen and honestly L that kind of really gives the city a Cool vibe because most Capital Cities you go to nowadays they're full of skyscrapers and tall buildings that overshadow all of the original architecture it kind of takes away from the traditional Vibe of the city you know another interesting thing you'll see as I'm walking around is you won't see any like McDonald's Burger Kings here cuz there is none here in Lao which is pretty cool you can support local businesses that's better the land of no McDonald's so for those of you who don't like trying Local Foods and you travel the places to eat McDonald's this is not your kind of place but anywh who anybody who does that I don't understand it I'm walking and right here I'm in the middle of the city you have all these government buildings around here beautiful temples but right there in front of me is a very important symbol here in Lao known as the patang I I think I'm saying that correctly correct me if I'm wrong but it's actually one of the most important if not the most important religious symbol here in Lao it's rumored to have been here since the 3rd Century ad as I mentioned from the 3rd to the 7th Century ad uh La was home to some of the earliest civilizations in this region in 19 in the 1930s when the French came and so on this area was bombed as I mentioned before Lao is one of the most bombed if not the most bombed nations in the world because of the hoochi mint Trail it was when the Americans were invading here they literally bombed the hell out of this country just to avoid Vietnam being able to get supplies through the hoi minil and Lou just had was kind of the man in the middle that had to suffer quite sad history if you think about it but what a beautiful structure this is just here smack dab in the middle of the city so gold and around now 5:00 p.m. is when the sun just shines on it from here and it is absolutely magnificent sight to see uhha OHA okay I'm going to get one I think it's sweet potato man like this like this ah okay so you just eat it like this oh St St M so as you guys can see it's like a sweet potato very nice nice little snack along the road I didn't even notice around here right by the monument that I or the stoa that I just showed you there is this little Night Market here as well never a shortage of night markets in Southeast Asia looks just like the ones in Thailand as well people just selling sweets Foods all kinds of uh goodies and treats ooh look at those French baguette looks amazing like bu me because of the French influence you'll see a lot of good bakeries and bread here in Lao What a Beautiful Day first impression here in Lao vienen absolutely amazing guys I love this place I would highly recommend it if you guys want to have a chill Capital City there's nothing more chill than this place I mean although it's a country of 7 million people as you walk around this city it feels like no one else is here it's just like your own little playground and uh something really cool about that man you get all the things that you would want from Southeast Asia all the Vibes without the rush in a capital city but with that being said guys it's been a nice beautiful long travel here beautiful day here in vnen and I'm going to sign out on this one guys if you haven't subscribed make sure you subscribe make sure you like make sure you comment and make sure you share it guys really does help the channel out more loud videos coming so stay tuned remember continue to learn continue to grow and there is no growth until you leave your comfort zone stay tuned I'll see you guys on the next one peace out
2025-02-20 21:03
