It wasn't hard for me to travel Laos 'coz they too speaks Thai language similarly especially in the capital city, the food was the same as well. Frustratingly to speak there's nothing much to see around except the neighboring provinces of Vientianne (according to some backpackers I met) but I failed to get out of the city.
Sad to say, if I'm going to compare the number of tourist in Laos and Philippines we couldn't have much of foreign backpackers than Laos.
Hope Philippines would be safer like of those other south east Asian brothers of ours so that there'll be more tourists love to visit our dear country.
