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Vientiane

Vientiane (Lao: ວຽງຈັນ, Vieng Chan) is the capital of Laos, with stunning temples, vibrant night markets, beautiful French-Indochinese architecture, lively street food stalls, and traditional craft markets.

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8 places match

  1. Buy

    Khua Din Market

    Local market. Mostly sells clothes and fabric, especially traditional Lao clothes, but there's an array of food and other products too. The entrances can be hard to spot, but when you go in it's huge.

  2. Buy

    Morning Market

    Talat Sao

    A large collection of indoor stalls selling, well, pretty much anything. There are two floors: the first floor sells mostly textiles, electronics (watch out as nearly all of them are counterfeit), and watches. The second floor has clothing, gold and jewellery. Depending on the product, you should negotiate. Discounts can vary from 10% to 33%.

    Closed · opens 9 am

  3. Buy

    Talat Sao Mall

    Has 3 floors and is the first public building in Vientiane with indoor parking. On weekends folks from the countryside come and marvel at the escalators (which one Lao magazine referred to in English as "electricity ladders"), and at the bravery of those who venture onto them. The mall boasts a few cafés and a Thai-style food court. The front side of the market has space for parking. The toilets are not far from the entrance and can be used for a very small fee. Many vendors are Thais so they expect you to pay in baht, despite the signs urging you to pay in kip, and they also expect you to be typical dumb tourists who'll pay any price and still think it's a bargain. Souvenir tee-shirts, three for 200 baht. Brand-name products are often fake.

  4. Eat Not mapped

    Ban Anou Night Market

    Has some of the best cheap meals in the city despite being only about a block long. Starts setting up at sundown. There's a wide range of street snacks available, including pho made with hand pulled noodles, little lettuce-wrapped snacks with peanut filling (miang), all types of grilled skewered meats, grilled sticky rice, local beverages made from coconut, chai tea, cornm grass jelly and more. Particularly worth trying are the small rice pancakes, two hemispheres of rice-based batter fried in a tin, filled with minced pork and beansprouts and put together. About the size of a flattened tennis ball, absolutely delicious.

  5. Eat Not mapped

    Vegan Food Stall at Sao Market Food Court

    Buffet plates, excellent spring rolls and noodle soups available.

    All plates at 10,000 kip each

  6. Buy

    Evening Market

    ວຽງຈັນ

  7. Eat

    Vegan Restaurant at Khuadin Market

    Khua Din Restaurant

    Offers a lunch buffet serving Laotian vegan food.

    Closed · opens 10 am30,000 kip