sept in laos

I%26#39;ve booked a trip with explore to Mekong, laos and Vietnam in Sept but now i%26#39;m finding out its monsoon season. can anyone who has been in sept let me know what it%26#39;s like because if its going to be raining all the time i may as well stay in london and get a book on the places instead. lol. seriously help me decide whether to change my destination or the time im going. cheers!

sept in laos

figgycat- i%26#39;m hoping for the same as i%26#39;m also planning a trip back to my Father%26#39;s birth place..

cheers.

sept in laos

Hi Figgy Cat..yes def. still going..a little rain here and there should be alright..i remember when i was there in Oct. 97 and don%26#39;t recall any down pour at all. so yes! can%26#39;t wait should be fun.

We went last September (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam), and were worried for the same reason. However, we found the weather delightful. Most of the time there was just a shower of rain around 6 p.m., lasting about an hour. It cooled everything off nicely, and made the towns fresh and clean. By the end of September even this had stopped, and for our final four days in Hanoi we didn%26#39;t get a drop of rain. Plan in confidence!

Thats great!!

Did you go with a tour group or solo?

Solo, of course. I am only 63, so a little young to be shepherded around in a tour group! Frankly, I think that tour groups are for the birds.... you send a lot of time with your own kind, and you see everything from a safe distance. Frankly, I%26#39;d rather stay home and rent the movie on DVD.

We did, by the way, get caught in what was described (last September) as a super-typhoon. We knew it was coming and didn%26#39;t quite know what to expect. That night we were on a long-distance bus from Luang Prabang to Vientiane, and it rained like nothing you have ever seen. However, the rain wasn%26#39;t nearly as bad as the music videos being played over and over again on the bus, and we didn%26#39;t experience any wind. BY daylight, when we pulled into Vientiane, it was just a drizzle, and by 9 a.m. (by which time we had found the Paris Hotel and oriented ourselves with a map of the city) the sun was out. I think that was the last rain we saw on the holiday.

so it sounds like a holiday end of Sep or early Oct is do-able...a bit of rain in the evening but it isn%26#39;t a showstopper in terms of stopping you seeing stuff, right??

where%26#39;s off limits then?

or what%26#39;s particularly good to see at that time of year? rafting anywhere???

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