Todd... to answer your question about why places like the waterfall and waterpark are not well known... its because youtubers and instagrammers like you are just now discovering the off the beaten track places. Lonely Planet never did! You should consider yourself the writer of the new Lao guidebook. Thanks and keep up the good work!

@agentmmarts3059

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly Sir. Todd and NeeNee are silently doing a great job.

I think weaving the photos in with the video really works along with the music, i cried for hours

Nice place, close to Vientiane,lovely little water features ... Kenno

Beautiful place, you guys get me emotional with every video. I’m homesick big time. This dang covid. Thanks guys.

HE LOOKS LIKE ARNOLD FROM HAPPY DAYS, DOESNT HE! omg i laughed so hard when u said that. brilliant.

Thanks for visiting the hmong Park! I'm hmong from the USA so thx BTW that park is usually packed when was open alot of hmong people know this place who live around there.

That waterfall was epic…..but the footbridge though…lol

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sketchy, I know

LUV the truck.

Beautiful place....

Anyway nice water park it’s a shame I couldn’t see it with water and people but looked very interesting keep up the good work and enjoy your content

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex

Very nice brother. As a Hmong American, I want to move to Laos when I retired just like you. Maybe experience the life my parents left behind.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Wishing you the best Tj 🙏

I really like them camouflage shoes I got to find me some here in America

Morning Todd and NeeNee

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Morning Luke 👍

People don't mind you walking all over their place? Nice water park, I'm sure it's popular with the local people. The other hotel was fine but this one was nicer, bright pink walls would get to me .

Awesome!

Beautiful!

Great to see where Arnold from Happy Days has retired And Fred Flintstones car.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

He's living the dream John 👌

Hi! Thanks for the video!

Great stuff mate, love the off the beaten track adventures you two do. The people pretty much always seem happy to see you and happy to chat.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Craig ✌

Outstanding.....what a beautiful park....Jeff

Thanks for showing us the lovely waterfall, I could sit there all day

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of these places I could just stay at all day. Sooo many places we don't want to leave..

Love the drill photos great work, deep and thoughtful the kid was cute

Absolutely beautiful & so very relaxing! Thank you for sharing with us.

Gee that home & Park in the jungle was impressive - cool shoes for $5 - another cool village 😎👌👍🙏

Loving these travel vlogs. !!!!

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

Great travel vlog! Thanks for the map too.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick ✌

Todd the black and white photos are beautiful mate. You guys are finding so many places to visit while in Laos. I didn’t notice the airbags on the Lao Hummer. Hahahahaha That waterpark would be amazing once it’s cleaned up eh? Incredible falls there. And how can we forget the rest house with the beautiful housekeeper. Great price for one night. Looks like just the place for an old Canadian gentleman to stay for a week or two. Thanks guys. Cheers!!!

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know when you want me to book you a room 👌😉

@ftkinsella

2 жыл бұрын

@@NowinLao hahahahaha.

Great video, I have travelled the road to Xaysombourne many times and did not know the water park existed.

That was fair dinkum Todd yet another great edit thanks from a pom .loved the waterfall and rustic bridges.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Always great to hear. Cheers mate 😁👍

Be careful of the camouflage Shoes cuz you just might not be able to find them 😉🤣. Todd’s turn to shop till you drop🤣. Keep em coming Todd 👍

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

I've lost em already 😕

@billydong9640

2 жыл бұрын

Lol.. thank goodness you know where NeeNee keeps her stash of emergency monies, right?😉🤣

Just surprisingly wondering to know about these countries.

19:57 Stunning mate. I want to go there!

Nice place, looks like Hawaii! Stay safe…🤙🏼

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

You too mate 👍

SA bai dee. Krub, lock down as well..I'm Laos? Thank u sir, I'm from south, pakse, but politely in Sydney, Aust. We greatly appreciate your trip, testing tasting..as we are naturally Miss Homeland..Ka God blessing

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you're along for the ride Bruce.. many more beautiful discoveries coming up on this trip. Buckle up 😁👍

🤗🙏🏼! What a gem of a place. So sad to see it idling, that dang COVID 😖. Thank you for another great video. Take care and stay safe 🙏🏼

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tèo, you too 👍

The choices you make for vlogging continue to engage me in the townships of Laos. Always beautiful and always curious. A waterpark in the middle of the jungle. How cool is that. Thank you again for taking us along for the ride . Your biggest fans, Harriet and JIm Richmond, Va.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

The thing is.. nobody mentioned the Waterpark, they just told us there was a waterfall out there. Bonus! Thanks Harriet, Jim. Love the support, take care 🙏

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

22:12 Forest Gump.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Haha exactly what I thought! 👌🏃‍♂️

It can be well known, todd and neenes travel company, told you , now you release these great adventures and unseen beautifully locations

Hey todd and neene , my Ray shouted out I'll join you on a mountain ride in that truck haha, lovethis newtrip it's amazing, so friendly in these out of the way places jen

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

No worries Ray! 👍

7:02 Mr Miyagi

Those truck are made by Lao people, buy engine from Korea and parts from various old trucks. Many are making those truck and sold reasonably cheap to farmers.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. I really like them. Tough as nails! 👌

Thank you for the upload and Greetings from locked down Sydney. What is it with boys and camo haha. Next you’ll be looking for a ghillie suit 555 Arnold from Happy Days, Fred’s car. This is like a Hmong Universal Studios. A blast from the past, Todd. Such an Australian observational approach. I love your channel but my wife can’t watch it as she says you’re “too much like me and she has to put up with me enough already “ haha Shane and Aoi

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Awww come on Aoi.. 2 of us would only be a good thing, right? 😝👍 Great to have you guys along 😁

Shame it’s not operational at the moment. Looks interesting. I love seeing the different villages and provinces. They all seem to live in a different way.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, would really like to visit there when it's fully operational 👌 Cheers guys 🙏

is this the slow season?? or has COVID kill the tourism?? the tree in the courtyard is bloody amazing

💯🔥💙👍

Soooo much to look at and people to engage with. You found shoes that fit? Or are your feet at an acceptable size...lol...I take size 11 shoes, so I always had problems finding anything to fit. Damn!! I'm getting strong cravings to travel again!! No Bluetooth in the Lao Humvee? Cheers Todd.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

No Bluetooth, but it was air conditioned! 😝👍 Yeah I think you'd struggle finding shoes to fit them feet here mate. I'm only a 9 and selection is limited for me. Was lucky with these, and very happy with them. They're still holding up pretty good 👍 Cheers mate

You two should go visit the Hmoob in Palavac in the Xaisomboun region. There's a lot of Hmoob family KZreadr there that are pretty popular on KZread. Palavac also has the prettiest Mountain in Laos...especially when the clouds are in. BTW; that bird with the big beak can talk like a parrot.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Will have to chase them up next time, our trip is over now 😒

Thanks for visiting Hmong villages this trip. Particularly thanks for saying "Hmong". In China and Vietnam, they still call us Meo. When the Laotian people want to trash us, they still use the word Meo. We always call ourselves Hmong.

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, all good. Love visiting the Hmong villages. Amazing depth of culture and very friendly people. Many more videos featuring Hmong to come in this series 👍

@khetly4266

2 жыл бұрын

that's old bro. you still living in the 60s. let it go my friend.

@khetly4266

2 жыл бұрын

i still go to laos once a year, just the last couple years i didn't because of covid.

@kouavang5928

2 жыл бұрын

@@khetly4266 brother we are America and we are proud call ourselves Hmong. In China at this current time and if you go there and ask for Hmong, the Chinese people don't know what that is, unless you say Meo. There are still occasional youtubes showing Thai and Laotiane people mock the Hmong people by calling them Meo. Same as in America, there are still racisim against Asian. So the word Meo still alive, especially in China.

Great Video Todd ,and amazing pics of the waterfall and bridge too.Loved the pink room too.Can I ask you what that hole was on the floor of the shower.Was that a toilet ?I have never anything like that before and 90,000 with A/C what a bargain .Look forward to the next one cheers Greg

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Yes, that is a toilet Greg. Not all are like that, most guesthouses have western toilets now, but now and again well be stuck with one of these. They come with a big plastic tub full of water and a bucket to flush. No gettin comfy on these things mate 😝

My goodness that kid running 🏃‍♂️end of video should go for the Olympics🧡 he out round the car 🏃‍♂️---🛻I think you should sponsor him🤑

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Run Forest run...

ไปเที้ยวไหน่ครับทั้งสองท่านขอให้มีความสุขนะครับ

A nice place! Did you ask the guest house owner if she is single? ;)

The waterpark certainly has great potential. So sad to see it like that in the present situation. You should have made him an offer for that truck......you would have had the time of your life around town in that. Not sure if Neenee would have approved though lol. 😊👍👍

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Would love one 👍

Bother do you know if laos is open up yet so we can visit our family

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Still not accepting tourists at the moment. Sorry. Will be sure to update when things change

Todd that truck hand build they use Hyundai power train and Hyundai parts cut the frame down to size and weld it back up custom make the body and other things

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Nice info, thanks Yeng 👌 No chance of me being able to drive one in Vientiane is there?

@yengthao1720

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure how the law work in Laos but the people that buy those kind of vehicles usually use them for farming and off road use I watch a hmong KZread from Laos he build them and there a Lao guy that build them too the hmong guy his truck are mostly blue in color I haven't seen the Lao guy truck

Ya know mate, your one lucky fella, you have a lovely wife who loves you, a nice home, a great family on both sides of the pond, and you travel and live in such a beautiful country. So I ask myself, what more can a man really ask for in life? Material stuff is just that, you can't take it with you when the father call for ya, now can ya. But you can have all these wonderful memories of some of the most beautiful places, plus share it with your lovely wife mate. I miss things like this but the wife got lazy and well, just nothing to do unless you drive all day and pay $160 US for a room unless you go camping in a tent, they charge you around $35 a night and you can't have a campfire and you still got to do your thing in the bush. This is why I want to just go to a country that it won't cost as much, if I can trade my wife in for a new model haha, Just a spot of humor Todd. Loved the video and everything was cool and I really dug that waterfall hidden way back in the rocks and trees. Peace to you and Neenee Todd, enjoy the trip, I know I am👍🏻✌🏻🌞

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe she'll let you get away and travel by yourself. Promise to be good though Roger 😉 and I'm sure she'd let you come 😁👍 Thank you my friend. You always point out the important things in life, I like that 🙏

Curious since you havent mentioned it for a while but hows Neenee's blood pressure? Hope shes doing better!

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Craig, thanks for asking mate. She's been really good lately. 👌

ist that truck made in china or some where alse

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently the chassis is from China, but the trucks are built in Lao

What is the name of this little town call

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

Longxane. It's about 3 hour drive north east of Vientiane.

I noticed you turn down logos on your camo hat but I see you wearing shirts with brand logos all the time so what’s the deal why won’t you wear a camo hat with a brand logo on it?

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

After a more military style cap. Can buy the ones with logos at every second shop over here. Most of the fun is in the hunt 😉

Laos Tour legends. You guys make me developing a vast hunger for Laos. Hope the PLANdemic fate away vividly. Great job #ToddHalesNeeneeKongmanee #2021.

Let go of the animals from the cages (and chains). Who created the theme park in the jungle wow, modernization and business versus nature.

wow... nice park :)) (mayors6secsAd;vikingcruises6secsAd)

4$ hurt your feet Flip flops like that I wear shoes I won’t trust

@NowinLao

2 жыл бұрын

They're actually comfortable 👌