Airtickets : check your departure times and date. Where possible buy e-tickets it
saves you time when you inadvertently lose the document you can always pull out
a copy from the computer or provide the ticket number. Paper tickets are more likely
to get lost and end up having to wait for months to claim the lost ticket. Make
sure you save a copy of your e-ticket in your traveling email...
Local currency is called kip. One USD is worth approximately 8500 LAK (Lao
Kip). Money can be exchanged at banks, authorized shops, or hotels. Rates fluctuate
slightly on a daily basis. Visa and MasterCard are widely accepted in most hotels,
and in higher end restaurants and shops. U.S. dollars are accepted everywhere.
The generally accepted form of greeting among Lao people is the Nop. It is performed
by placing one’s palms together in a position of praying at chest level, but not
touching any part of the body . The higher the hands, the greater the sign
of respect. Nonetheless, the hands should not be held above the level of the nose.
The Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Laos is located in the center of Indochina,
sharing borders with China to the North 416 kilometers, Myanmar to Northwest 236
kilometers, Thailand to the West 1,835 kilometers, Cambodia to the South 492 kilometers
and Vietnam to the East 1,957 kilometers...
The generally accepted form of greeting among Lao people is the Nop. It is performed
by placing one’s palms together in a position of praying at chest level, but not
touching any part of the body . The higher the hands, the greater the sign
of respect. Nonetheless, the hands should not be held above the level of the nose. 
