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rooms. There is a small bar-restaurant with an open-pit barbecue and occasional guitar
strum-alongs. Owner Mr Keo runs excellent tours to the jars, as well as specialised trips.
Nice Guesthouse
( 061-312454;
vuemany@hotmail.com
; r 80,000-110,000K; )
With fresh and fragrant rooms,
clean bathrooms and firm beds, Nice shows no signs of ageing just yet. Chinese lanterns
cast a ruby glow into the chilled night and upstairs rooms include a bathtub.
GUESTHOUSE
$
White Orchid Guesthouse
( 061-312403; r incl breakfast 80,000-200,000K; )
The menthol-green walls include clean
en suite bathrooms and welcome blankets. The higher you ascend, the higher the price and
better the views. Free pick-up from airport or bus station.
GUESTHOUSE
$
Auberge de la Plaine des Jarres
( 030 517 0282;
www.plainedesjarres.com
;
r US$50-60; )
Hillside elevation, Scotch pines
and Swiss-style wooden interiors give these inviting all-wood cabins an incongruously
alpine feel. There's a great French and Lao restaurant with a nightly fire and some panor-
amic vistas over the town. Rooms show signs of age, but there are oodles of charm. It's a
10-minute drive from town.
CABINS
$$
Phouviengkham Resort
( 061-213417;
phouviengkham@live.com
; r US$65- 85)
Tasteful Phouviengkham sits panoram-
ically above town on an isolated hilltop and has spacious, stylish rooms with Lao cotton
bedspreads and bamboo furnishings.
HOTEL
$$
Eating
Wild
matsutake
mushrooms
(hét wâi)
and fermented swallows
(nok ąan dorng)
are local
avoid an unpleasant surprise, several Vietnamese restaurants serve dog
(thit chó)
.
Bamboozle Restaurant & Bar
INTERNATIONAL
$
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