Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Laos' new high-speed train cuts the journey between Luang Prabang and Vientiane from six or seven hours to just two.iStock It's hot ...

Colourful rectangular wooden boats carrying tourists chug along at a leisurely pace across the Mekong River. The atmosphere is idyllic, disturbed only by the monotonous throbbing of the boats’ engines ...

There’s a single overriding reason to fast-track Luang Prabang to the top of any travel bucket list, and that is the railway line that is currently being built between Kunming, in China, and Vientiane ...