Nong Khai

[Sectional]

Is there enough to do for 4 or 5 days?

[tonray]

If you pass away early in Day 3, then Yes.

[Sectional]

7 hours ago, tonray said:

If you pass away early in Day 3, then Yes.

I like it. Ok where is good for 5 days but not full of tourists?

[tonray]

1 hour ago, Sectional said:

I like it. Ok where is good for 5 days but not full of tourists?

Most people transit thru Nong Khai only when making  Visa trip. It depends on what you like to do really. I'm partial to Khon Kaen not many tourists but great markets and some if the best food in Thailand.

[edd]

I've been going there for over 28 years.
I would be stretched to fill in more than 5 hours.
Totally boring place.

[Nice Boyd]

You can do it go to Soi Farang and International Market maybe one day in Vientiane, I do it all the time, stay Nong Khai City Hotel, go to Jing Joe's , Mae' across the street


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[Damrongsak]

On 5/4/2017 at 10:11 AM, tonray said:

If you pass away early in Day 3, then Yes.

LOL. It was a swinging place back in 1979 when I worked in the Laotian refugee camp there.  You could sip a beer at one of the restaurants overlooking the river and see a few people over on the Lao side. 

 

My wife was born there and my mother-in-law sold vegetables in the market way back when.  Good place to be from, as my Dad used to say.

Edited May 7, 2017 by Damrongsak

[Damrongsak]

The only exciting thing I ever saw in Nong Khai was when a bunch of foreigners came and stayed at our hotel.  It was John Everingham and his band of hangers-on.  They made a movie out of it.  Michael Landon portrayed Everingham. John snatched his Lao girl using scuba gear and brought her across the river in May 1978.  I was there about a year later.

 

http://people.com/archive/a-michael-landon-tv-movie-tells-the-amazing-story-of-what-john-everingham-did-for-love-vol-19-no-13/

 

Excerpt:  All the world loves a brave lover. And if the 20th century doesn’t offer many stories of knights in shining armor and damsels in distress, it does occasionally come up with the appropriate equivalent. Consider the case of John Everingham. Five years ago the Australian photojournalist’s Laotian sweetheart, Keo Sirisomphone, was trapped in her Communist-ruled homeland. Government authorities would not allow her to leave and the chief of the secret police was trying to force her into sexual relations. Unwilling to believe that he could never see Keo again, Everingham plotted a daring rescue to pluck her from Laos. It was a love story made to be retold, and this Sunday it will be, when Michael Landon portrays Everingham in Love Is Forever, the TV movie of his exploit.