Greetings from USA. I agree with you. I hope Laos become prosperous. It's an underrated country, but the people are very sweet and it's a beautiful place.
@@TripsonBudget I get your point that this is out of the reach of the majority of the Lao people, in the meantime we are waiting another 10 years to get a slow train to the international airport in Melbourne. That's after the last 8 years of planning. At least it may be finished by the time I retire and am heading off to these wonderful places.
@@shaunashton9744 Their HSR did rely heavily on China building it and with their equipment! Since China is already experienced with their development in their own multiple HSRs they built Laos HSR quite quickly!
Jakarta to Bandung high-speed rail project details The proposed rail link will be 142 km long, with approximate train speed estimated to be between 200km/h and 250km/h. Source：CREC International Business Division,RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY Date：2019-05-16
Took that Train from Vientaine to Lung Prabang return this year, really good and so well organised ,have to say I was impressed. I believe eventually it will join China to Malaysia
The line is already connected with the Chinese railway network and there are freight trains to China. At the moment there is only passenger train to the Chinese border due to the pandemic, and hopefully passenger trains will connect Vientiane and Kunming next year
Looking to do this with family later this year. I rode my bicycle from Vientiane to luang Prabang a few years ago during the wet season great trip really beautiful in the mountains
Turut berbangga dengan kemajuan kawasan Negara Negara ASEAN,semoga tahun tahun mendatang tambah maju dan makmur ASEAN,BERSAMA KITA TUMBUH,BERSAMA KITA MAJU. salam dari INDONESIA.🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
Greetings from USA. Laos is an underrated country. But it's a beautiful place with good people. I hope the new railway will help them become prosperous.
woww.. the Thai train coming up in a few years to joined with this one will be even better.. when they finally joined up with Malaysia it will be one of the best train experience of all time all the way to the internal city of Kunming..
Though Thailand would have to deal with the ongoing Malay Terrorists/Insurgents/Separatists in Southern Thailand before it ever starts the southern line construction!
Yes, China's high-speed railway will connect the whole world, starting from China and going south to Singapore, Indonesia and even Australia. Southwest to India. North to Russia. West to England, Spain, Africa and South Africa. East Japan, Canada, America, Mexico, South America and Argentina.
@@chrisperkins7331 With the present technology and economy, it should not be a problem to build the Bering Strait Highway Railway Bridge or the Bering Strait Cross-Harbour Tunnel.
Sure they are, as the laotians just keep their heads down, working their day and moving forward...no longer worried about US schemes to sabotage their development.
@@shaunashton9744 will turn to the US investment in Laos, how is the millions of bombs on the heads of Laos? no, no, that's enough!!! where are the legs of America, there is war and devastation
Greetings from USA. Laos is a very poor country. The people are less fortunate than us. But they're so poor, they have no choice but to borrow money from China. Now Laos is trapped. I hope the Lao economy picks up and help pay for the loans.
if i remember correctly the train only reach thai border, thai was planning for 2 phases of contruction, south part first, then north. i guess they were just planning to provide consctruction jobs for locals, not really connecting with lao train. it would probably gonna take 8-10years to get rail line all the way from china to thailand. i guess you can just forget about malaysia or singapore. we might immigrant to mars before we connect singapore with rails XD.
Considering the amount of rain we received each year, I'm surprise they didn't build the roof out abit more to make it more convenient to take taxi without getting wet. Many times I found public transport design did not always consider the weather. While in Asia we have to deal with sun and rain, in Europe many train platforms are open-air and during winter making it so painful to wait the train.
These videos are great! Thank you for taking them. I visited Laos just before the pandemic in 2020. I had to fly from Vientiane to Luong Prabang. One thing that struck me with these train stations is how far they all are from the downtowns, they felt as remote as airports in the US are to their cities. Are there plans for connecting the cities to these airports with transit and urban expansion? Did you see any signs of this?
You are right Patrick, the train stations are far out of town. In Vang Vieng it was ok, but Luang Prabang and Vientiane, the stations are about 20 km from the city.
Land outside the city is much cheaper, and easier to buy. As there are buses to take you into town I don't se an issue with it. The population is very small compared to other SE Asia countries, so that level of expansion is unlikely.
Hallo Geromr Ich folge dir schon seit Jahren. Du machts tolle Videos. Nun hsbe ich eine ungewöhnliche Frage. Kannst du mir einen guten Augenarzt/Klinik in Bangkok nennen. Vielleicht mit Kontakdaten? Das wäre super.. Vielen Dank im Voraus Viele Grüße Ralf
@蔡English So as a Chinese person you seem to think that the whole world should revolve around you, and every one else is worthless. Well you are entitled to your opinion, but it is only based on what the government wants you to know. However right now your economy is in turmoil, due to the housing market collapsing, so I feel sad for you.
The train is built for cargo, not passengers. So to keep costs down and be able to build as straight as possible, the Chinese builders put them outside of major towns. I believe the cargo trains run during nights and passengers on day time.
@@temper44 There is some truth is what you say, but the land is cheaper or still controlled by the government away from th town centers, which is a main reason for where the stations are built.
Hope Laos people's life getting better and better. The video is awesome.
Greetings from USA. I agree with you. I hope Laos become prosperous. It's an underrated country, but the people are very sweet and it's a beautiful place.
I can't believe Laos has better trains than Australia. I visited Laos in 96, great to see that it has prospered since then.
Would you pay 10% of your monthly wage for this trip if you would have it in Australia?
@@TripsonBudget I get your point that this is out of the reach of the majority of the Lao people, in the meantime we are waiting another 10 years to get a slow train to the international airport in Melbourne. That's after the last 8 years of planning. At least it may be finished by the time I retire and am heading off to these wonderful places.
@@shaunashton9744 Their HSR did rely heavily on China building it and with their equipment! Since China is already experienced with their development in their own multiple HSRs they built Laos HSR quite quickly!
@@Iceyfire12 Beats the Soviet 1960's turbo prop that I flew from Luang Prabang to Vientiane any day.
Yes, we can't upset the Qantas monopoly.
hi I'm from Indonesia, mid next year the Indonesian high-speed train with a speed of 350km/h will operate.
I hope you will come to try it ☺
I hope so too!!
Jakarta to Bandung high-speed rail project details
The proposed rail link will be 142 km long, with approximate train speed estimated to be between 200km/h and 250km/h.
Source：CREC International Business Division,RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY Date：2019-05-16
Wow!!! An amazing and so good Laos train.👍👍 I think this is like this Shenzhen Bullet train. I was ever tried when I visited to Shenzhen. Love it 💝💕
Very very nice landscape !!! Thank you so much Kaaskop ;)
Took that Train from Vientaine to Lung Prabang return this year, really good and so well organised ,have to say I was impressed. I believe eventually it will join China to Malaysia
The line is already connected with the Chinese railway network and there are freight trains to China. At the moment there is only passenger train to the Chinese border due to the pandemic, and hopefully passenger trains will connect Vientiane and Kunming next year
Very cool, i would love taking the train around in Lao…….best way to see everything and inexpensive…….nice video
Looking to do this with family later this year. I rode my bicycle from Vientiane to luang Prabang a few years ago during the wet season great trip really beautiful in the mountains
Turut berbangga dengan kemajuan kawasan Negara Negara ASEAN,semoga tahun tahun mendatang tambah maju dan makmur ASEAN,BERSAMA KITA TUMBUH,BERSAMA KITA MAJU.
salam dari INDONESIA.🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
Thank you!!
ພວກເຮົາຊາວອາຊ່ຽນຈັບມືເດີນຫນ້າໄປດ້ວຍກັນ
ພວກເຮົາຊາວອາຊ່ຽນຈັບມືເດີນຫນ້າໄປດ້ວຍກັນ
Laos and Vietnam are already started to built the railway also..Survey are already started...Cambodia also wanted in on the action..Latest news..
Nice video. Laos looks like a lovely place.
Greetings from USA. Laos is an underrated country. But it's a beautiful place with good people. I hope the new railway will help them become prosperous.
What a lovely train and the views are great till the next one,,, peace and happiness as always jereon
woww.. the Thai train coming up in a few years to joined with this one will be even better.. when they finally joined up with Malaysia it will be one of the best train experience of all time all the way to the internal city of Kunming..
Though Thailand would have to deal with the ongoing Malay Terrorists/Insurgents/Separatists in Southern Thailand before it ever starts the southern line construction!
@@Iceyfire12 not true.
Yes, China's high-speed railway will connect the whole world, starting from China and going south to Singapore, Indonesia and even Australia. Southwest to India. North to Russia. West to England, Spain, Africa and South Africa. East Japan, Canada, America, Mexico, South America and Argentina.
@@gaohongjie211 Really. I will be interested to see a bridge 3000 miles long to connect Europe to America.
@@chrisperkins7331 With the present technology and economy, it should not be a problem to build the Bering Strait Highway Railway Bridge or the Bering Strait Cross-Harbour Tunnel.
Nice to see this New Fast Train trip. Good price for First Class Seat. 🙏
Very nice to see this trip, very well done✌🏼🤘🏼🇹🇭😊🪷
Che verde ! Ci stava questa bella passeggiata! Un saluto dall’Italia
Its not surprising that the west are shedding crocodile tears as they are too concerned that Laos is debt-trapped to China with this railway.
Sure they are, as the laotians just keep their heads down, working their day and moving forward...no longer worried about US schemes to sabotage their development.
Somehow I don't think that the Lao people will be turning to the US any time soon looking for investment.
@@shaunashton9744 will turn to the US investment in Laos, how is the millions of bombs on the heads of Laos? no, no, that's enough!!! where are the legs of America, there is war and devastation
Greetings from USA. Laos is a very poor country. The people are less fortunate than us. But they're so poor, they have no choice but to borrow money from China. Now Laos is trapped. I hope the Lao economy picks up and help pay for the loans.
the meter track from thailand is also prolonged to vientiane station, but if i understood correctly its only aimed for cargo, not for passengers
Passenger service is not. But cargo service are well connected
Will be both..Passenger and cargo
if i remember correctly the train only reach thai border, thai was planning for 2 phases of contruction, south part first, then north. i guess they were just planning to provide consctruction jobs for locals, not really connecting with lao train. it would probably gonna take 8-10years to get rail line all the way from china to thailand. i guess you can just forget about malaysia or singapore. we might immigrant to mars before we connect singapore with rails XD.
@@redhongkong Thai side is building Bangkok-Korat first (construction ongoing) and the connection up to Laos as second step
Many thanks for the information. We're planning a trip coming October.
Considering the amount of rain we received each year, I'm surprise they didn't build the roof out abit more to make it more convenient to take taxi without getting wet. Many times I found public transport design did not always consider the weather. While in Asia we have to deal with sun and rain, in Europe many train platforms are open-air and during winter making it so painful to wait the train.
Would love to go to Laos soon. Never went, as it was/is not allowed to take rental cars from Thailand over the border
Thanks for the eeehhhvideooooo
correction, I would like to say there is charger in second class ,which is under seat
??? Is there or is non ???
Thanks for the update Jeroen 😊👍🏼
Big like 260 - I enjoyed full video 10.35 Thank you for lovely train trip!! Have a nice day. Greeting from Thailand 👍👍😊❤❤
Beautiful, modern, clean, orderly, clear and advanced
Thanks for the video, how easy is it to get from this station the Vientiane airport?
Thanks for sharing your view and experience
very very good ！
Thanks for another informative videoooooo
Is there. Link to book this train ticket
Hi, thank you for the video. can we book the ticket online?
I connected with a shop in Luang Prabang online, but they stopped their service.
Would have been good to know cost of taxi to Vientiane
三轮车一个人5万老币，但可以讲价到3万，好像那个中巴车更便宜。
ສຸດຍອດ ຂອບໃຈທີ່ມາທ່ຽວປະເທດລາວ
Awesome!!!
Laos is best place in the world
These videos are great! Thank you for taking them. I visited Laos just before the pandemic in 2020. I had to fly from Vientiane to Luong Prabang. One thing that struck me with these train stations is how far they all are from the downtowns, they felt as remote as airports in the US are to their cities. Are there plans for connecting the cities to these airports with transit and urban expansion? Did you see any signs of this?
You are right Patrick, the train stations are far out of town. In Vang Vieng it was ok, but Luang Prabang and Vientiane, the stations are about 20 km from the city.
Land outside the city is much cheaper, and easier to buy. As there are buses to take you into town I don't se an issue with it. The population is very small compared to other SE Asia countries, so that level of expansion is unlikely.
they hope that development will follow these train stations after a decade or so.
Laos small country are big powers
How much this ticket cost you?
Nice
How’s do you thinking of Laos Country now !
How long was the trip, thanks
It was only 45 minutes
เยี่ยมมาก จากไทยแลนด์
Laos is hub of logistics between china country and asean countries
Hey, you say the stretch from Vang Vein to Luang Prabang is still under construction………would you care to confirm that statement…..
The highway is still under construction.
Hallo Geromr
Ich folge dir schon seit Jahren.
Du machts tolle Videos.
Nun hsbe ich eine ungewöhnliche Frage.
Kannst du mir einen guten Augenarzt/Klinik in Bangkok nennen.
Vielleicht mit Kontakdaten?
Das wäre super..
Vielen Dank im Voraus
Viele Grüße
Ralf
🇨🇳👬🇱🇦
I like Thailand
Laos landlock to landlink to china to europe
The real first-class seat is called business class.
@蔡English 😃好久不见，原来你还在这里
@蔡English 我也是啊，我最近在看他们的站房进度，我感觉比老挝站房好太多了，车的涂装也好看。但是轨道总是弯的，那么喜欢拐弯吗？马上要试车了，到时候你留言，我们再相会😃
@蔡English 嗯呐
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why is the train station 20km from the city centre? seems a bit of an error when building brand new...
@蔡English China also has a habit of taking land with little concern for the previous owner. Lao is not like that.
@蔡English Well at least it is not in Lockdown, which is bout as slow as you can go.
@蔡English So as a Chinese person you seem to think that the whole world should revolve around you, and every one else is worthless. Well you are entitled to your opinion, but it is only based on what the government wants you to know. However right now your economy is in turmoil, due to the housing market collapsing, so I feel sad for you.
The train is built for cargo, not passengers. So to keep costs down and be able to build as straight as possible, the Chinese builders put them outside of major towns. I believe the cargo trains run during nights and passengers on day time.
@@temper44 There is some truth is what you say, but the land is cheaper or still controlled by the government away from th town centers, which is a main reason for where the stations are built.
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