A Bad Experience in Laos | Back roads & Hmong Villages E8

[@akulathao4654]

What do think about the cop's over scamming you for money's?

[@NowinLao]

Never been scammed by the cops for money. I have paid a lesser fine for not having all the correct documents though. If you've done nothing wrong and the cars documents are up to date.. they wave you through. They don't ask for money if you've done nothing wrong. Would you rather pay the larger official fine or the much smaller donation for an infringement..? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3TUYZpsadJknKc

[@beethao4145]

@@NowinLao, agree, you live or travel to a country, don’t try to be an advocate. The most important is to stay safe and used your common sense, and understand and respect the country and it’s people and law then you have no trouble or problems, by the way love your Ventura highway song. Perfect for those vineyard road

[@costasworldofmusicmemories5792]

As always Todd, The Hmong Series has been so engaging. You are right Todd, the first thing that tourists notice in a area is whether its clean or dirty. Every spring in our neighborhood, we volunteer to do a trash clean up near the James River. We think it's important to teach people to take care of each other and the land. The lao people do that. Be well and Stay Safe 🙏 Jim and Harriet

[@aldodrinkwater3655]

Thank you for your honest opinion and for the great job you do with your wife to bring this true to life vlogs and to make us part of your life

[@independentcontractor1633]

Great Video Guys!

[@chiccenhawkc]

💯🔥💙👍

[@independentcontractor1633]

Can't wait for the next part!

[@ballistic350]

Blessing to you todd... for always showing love to my people

[@desmondwarren9760]

Very enjoyable it will be interesting to see the border crossing

[@donbrashsux]

Just awesum 👍

[@Yvonmoua]

Nice video Todd and Nee Nee!

[@ForRiel]

I'm so pleased we ended up at the Vienna. That hotel was wonderful and amazing value. 🎉 Also, thanks for the shout-out and new subscribers who came as a result.

[@NowinLao]

No worries! Was awesome meeting up with you guys and being able to show you a little of Laos 👌😉 Would be great to do another trip some time.. after we visit you guys in SR of course 🍻

[@mcscootie]

Mina rockin that Adidas tracksuit !!!

[@debid.3808]

Hello from Coosbay Oregon, U.S.A. I'm watching your video on the t.v. and have it running on my phone. Want to make sure to get your videos seen. You 2 do such amazing things and have a big heart. God bless you and yours

[@NowinLao]

Thank you so much! Little things like this really do help our channel.. Thanks 😉

[@elizabethwilsonwall1049]

The drone footage is GORGEOUS!

[@kennethwalker4701]

Like your videos my friend, very interesting and fun to watch.....LIKE!!

[@threecampbells]

Such a real difference when you go off the beaten path, people so unique and friendly. The drone visuals gave a breathtaking view of a peaceful place tucked away from the rest of the world. Sad to hear about the air bnb hotel, such a shock of the ungrateful that you can run across. Was a great video and trip, the upcoming videos look exciting. Thanks Todd, yeah, the wife finally watched and really liked it, how cool is that mate! ✌️

[@NowinLao]

Hahaha finally! That is great Roger and a BIG HI to Mrs Campbell 👋 Take care of each other 🙏

[@allisgood4648]

Great video again!

[@keithmuckchucker6468]

Top Job Todd love these video's the scenery from the drone shots is beautiful! Love what your doing for the less fortunate😊🙏

[@NowinLao]

Thanks Keith 👍

[@nevillelomas6368]

Hey Todd, can’t wait for upcoming videos, looks like interesting country side coming up. Take care Nev

[@dkp28]

Hello Todd, Neenee, and Mina! Enjoying your videos from Washington State on the Western Coast of US. I was born in Phou Meng (sp?) and have always wanted to visit at least once, but each time I decide to go for it, I hear another story which changes my mind. Perhaps someday I will make it there, or maybe not. Maybe I'll enjoy the country vicariously through you. I have heard of stories similar to your booking with the guest houses... it's their loss, Todd. Blessings to you, Neenee, and Mina for what you do.

[@AndyPat239]

enjoyed your vid thanks Todd

[@peterdelage6759]

Thank you for sharing those wonderful moments you are living😊

[@peterfong2241]

Blessed love to all, Great video as usual bro, Don't worry about a ting, because every little ting gonna be alright, Am fulljoying your videos so much from Jamaica west Indies !!

[@jordiking2481]

Another amazing video team Todd... Every new video surpasses the last one...100% talent..

[@costasworldofmusicmemories5792]

The series has been so engaging . It's unfortunate that a would be guest house owner would take advantage of tourists. So wrong. Keep up the good fight Todd.and Neenee. Looking forward to so much more Todd. Be Well and Stay Safe Dear friends 🙏🙏. Jim and Harriet

[@NowinLao]

Thank you Jim

[@nickyssamesame]

As always nice one mate!

[@PhajEsTeeb]

Good adventure 🎉🎉🎉

[@bonher69]

Love you guys for the gifts you provided to the kids! Keep up the good work!

[@scotbownes5627]

👍🙂 - love it - as always the best

[@NowinLao]

Thanks Scot

[@sanchoy]

keep it up Todd. Love these videos!!!! Taking us along your adventures is such a joy...

[@sisakhonevilayphone8087]

Thank you 😍🙏😇

[@wildlifecornor]

สวัสดีค่ะ

[@camilocamilo5304]

Todd & Nene, this channel is one of the very of the lots i follow, that i watch in its entirety without fast forwarding. Love it!

[@NowinLao]

Thank you Camilo, great to know. I must be doing something right 👍

[@kongswethai3964]

i love the rubber suit , ingenious 555 - your videos are showing the real Laos, the real meetings

[@keithhowell4138]

Been watching a lot of your vids this week ,,,so much good to say about them,, but thought I’d mention how much the music you pick is great

[@NowinLao]

Thanks Keith.. great to have ya along for the ride mate. Enjoy!

[@BadMedizin]

Very cool! ❤👍👍👍🙏

[@terranceyeo3087]

you all looked posh at the wedding, mina has been growing up in Sutch for a short time, she is going to be a very confident young lady thanks to you two

[@NowinLao]

Growing way too quick mate... Massive growth spurt now that she's eating healthier. Cheers Terrance, take care mate

[@mtnmandeluxe5429]

Great video Todd, Neenee and Mina! 👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹❤❤❤❤🍪🤣

[@NowinLao]

Thanks champ 👍

[@billpeterson178]

I'm so looking forward to the next episode. Great job as usual.

[@peters3944]

Woow Woow I'm watching your Video always

[@NowinLao]

Champion.. thank you!

[@meksavanhmanivong2493]

Enjoy your trip Todd 👍wishes I could do what you doing! Cheers mate 👍

[@hsailer]

Another good spare item to pack in your truck, is a spare fan/accessory belt.

[@KennoRob]

The local village ladies interacting with you and Neenee,is terrific,typically friendly people.How are you feeling about the Troopy,compared to the Rado. Feel more tougher/securer ? Kenno

[@teoschatz8430]

🤗🙏🏼! 😂 that’s how some old men wear their sandals, they would wear socks inside their sandals Lol… Enjoyed the video, thank you. Have a great the rest of the weekend.

[@leomaguire2517]

Awesome thank you 😊

[@geraldmoore9275]

Super vlog and fly over plus love the blk&whts. Great adventure off track. Stay safe and warm Todd Neenee and little Mina.❤❤❤😮😮😮😊😊😊

[@DESSLOK17327]

Every Aussie I've ever met can bite off a bottle cap. Sissy. Joking, thanks for another great video, joined your Patreon a week ago, wish I could give more.

[@NowinLao]

I've only ever seen Lao girls do that!? Legend! Thank you 👍

[@andrewghof3485]

Fan belts is a must

[@BounlevaSenesomboun-hu2tj]

Good evening from California

[@johnhowarth256]

Fantastic thank you

[@xeemnpisyuslis2089]

In the early 1950s my dad and his older brother, and a few uncles and their families moved from the southern side of the plain of jars to Don Dang so my Father and his older brother, can go to school in Muang Khoum. They finished secondary school there in the old capital and start their college in Vientiane and became the first few Hmong to finished college Dong Dok Teacher College in the early 1960s.

[@ayangdidi5524]

Djong djong. Did they learn French there ? Est ce qu'ils ont appris le français là bas ? Ici en Bretagne j'ai 3 amis Hmong. Kone Breton in Brittany.

[@xeemnpisyuslis2089]

@@ayangdidi5524 Yes in those early years all the way to the 1960s was all French in secondary schools and college. English was an option only in beginning in the 1960s into the early 1970s at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

[@donaldthomas7753]

Great episode, E8 is gone and I will be here for E9. Thanks, Todd, for the ride and the sweet black and whites.

[@NowinLao]

Always great to have you along for the ride mate

[@KCL2021]

I like your SUV classic style 👌 toyota

[@davesbikelife]

An absolute banger of a video again and that troopy is doing well the altitude 💯 I was just getting into the video buddy and then you leave us hanging buddy 😂 love it 🙏🏽🙏🏽👊🏽

[@NowinLao]

Hahaha yeah.. but I make it up to you in the next one 👌😉 Cheers Dave 🍻

[@davesbikelife]

@@NowinLao 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽👍🏽

[@thomasdean321]

lovely sound track. who is the artist at the beginning and end?

[@Walk-retirement-travel]

I had the same question I hope we find out

[@NowinLao]

Some European artist.. downloaded the track years ago without taking note of the name and title 🫣

[@paultengrotenhuis3539]

Good Morning from Sunny Sydney :-)

[@NowinLao]

Good morning Sydney. What's the weather like today.. stinking hot again?

[@cbrown9555]

You’re a wild man

[@financierechris9566]

wow that's a video ! Sabaidee from France !

[@NowinLao]

Sabaideeeeee 🙏

[@BobMelsimpleliving.]

Hate to leave ya hanging mate. 🤣 OK Todd see ya next time.

[@ontheroad9750]

Hi there good day. what's the song your using?

[@_Alfa.Bravo_]

Honda wave driver seemed to be afraid of the ghost of the truck driver in the canyon and wanted to drive away

[@NowinLao]

Yeah he didn't want to hang round long 😲

[@moev6460]

I was just there in 🇱🇦 in December. Was told that it was 150,000. I show up and they charge 300,000kip since I'm American. Never going to the same place again. It's open knowledge they charge hmong American more.

[@NowinLao]

Ok. Exactly what I thought he was up to. Thanks for clarifying that for us, my negative thoughts weren't unjustified. We were able to book ahead next door at the "Vienna" for 100,000kip, no problem. Maybe check that out next time. Sorry to hear this happened to you 🙏

[@Walk-retirement-travel]

Like the videos. I’m always a bit surprised just how undeveloped the country still is. Do you think they are still having a hangover from the War in the 60’s-70s and what followed into the 80’s

[@NowinLao]

Oh most definitely.. a huge part of this country is still littered with UXO's which has held it back for years

[@yingdoinhisthing]

Hey, at 3:57, thanks for putting my mom in your video lolol.

[@NowinLao]

Hi mum👋

[@michellegracesettree5909]

Treading the Globe is in Thailand..

[@Bobwa2008]

Did you leave the bottle cap on the ground ?

[@NowinLao]

You'll never know Bob. I can't keep everything in a video just to keep the negative Nancy's happy 😏

[@arro104]

Have you ever driven towards the border with Vietnam directly east from Vientiane? How far can you go?

[@Walk-retirement-travel]

I really would like to know the song you use as your background music

[@NowinLao]

An unknown artist sorry

[@pheasantplucker6117]

Ventura Highway

[@NowinLao]

@@pheasantplucker6117 I don't think that was the song they meant

[@geraldtabu-or2jr]

Some hotels or guest houses with members only or booking in advance has funny activities going at the place at particular times.

[@anthonylee2482]

Great show Tod ,Mate a fuel additive should help the fuel .This should help changing filter also we have a lot of trouble with fuel hear some times (Mining Equipment) Keep the good time rolling

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

Well ol mate we stayed here at Jenida on the 11 oct to 13 th october and loved the location. Honestly Phonsavan is a shithole by the way and honestly people give this joint a wide berth as it has an un savouray tone especially after dark as we can vouch for. Craters is a great joint to have Tea and the coffee joint next door is about the best coffee you will get for 200 kms but the whole joint is a shithole. There is alot of drug use here which is annoying and honestly not a place we will be visiting next year.

[@NowinLao]

Love your honesty mate.. we only venture here for the surrounding history or the Hmong New Year event, and certainly don't venture far from craters after dark. It certainly is a much different place than most other Lao cities. Just about to msg you 😉

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

@@NowinLao Mate its a great spot in an un savoury joint. Craters is a place we loved to have our Tea in. The restaraunt next door was a great people watching joint but the clientele was bloody horrible. There are so many awesome places in Laos but not Phonsavan.

[@MarkSmith.]

I really enjoy watching your adventures into the villages. can I ask why they all run and hide? is it because you're a foreigner and are just scared or is there something else that happens in Laos for them to be like that

[@NowinLao]

Honestly.. I'm really not sure. I have heard stories of Hmong people scaring children with stories of how the white men will steal them.. but that's just to scare the kids I think cause they very rarely see us here. These kids ran before they could even see who was in the car. I think they hide from any strangers. Weeks or even months will go by up here without any stranger coming through the village. Such a quiet and peaceful place.. I really wish we could've stayed there longer.

[@lesleyculley9682]

Another Sunday video watched .......Can't get over the beautiful scenery, looking forward to the next chapter......thanks Todd, Neenee and Mina for taking us along for the ride 😊 ❤

[@terranceyeo3087]

todd diesel get a bug in it and it looks like yellow snot that blocks up you filters, either you filled up with some bad fuel or the fuel in your tank has been there for a long time get a few of them filters in i wound get at least 6

[@NowinLao]

Good idea as they're not that expensive 👌

[@CaptainKremmen]

19:45 You're right, but if the bloke was drunk driving on those roads, sensible decisions weren't the order of the day.

[@terranceyeo3087]

good-day todd and fam

[@tchin6339]

Mr Todd, when will you be conversing fluently in Laos and without Nee2 as your interpreter?:))))

[@NowinLao]

When I can speak Lao fluently 😉

[@PeterC245]

What did I say , Fuel Filter, Peter Sukhothai, QLD

[@gordon7260]

does Mina understand what you are doing when you drive around, does she understand that you help people

[@NowinLao]

Hey Gordo.. yeah she's starting to grasp what we do. You'll see in the next video how she gets in and helps us now 👌

[@katrinashong8171]

They Hmong ppl with rooms or hotel does the same with Hmong meka. Must be present to book day of.

[@timothykue9179]

They overcharge Hmong American every time they have a chance too

[@AiJaiDeeSaMer]

If you are a Hmong American then just tell them that you are a local or a visitor from the capital Vientiane and see if that will help, LOL

[@ThisPersonShow]

That just bad business practice, I hope you guy shop around and find a better deal. Not sure if the owner is looking out for the hmong people by providing them room during the time it really hard to find a room in Hmong new year or ripping them off, it will not help him in the long term. I hope he is just trying to help the Hmong America. If so during next year he should reserve some room ahead of time with price increase, so this way it does not look like he is trying to rip people off.

[@NowinLao]

He wasn't looking after them, he was cashing in. He more than doubled the price to 300,000 kip for another American tourist. We walked to the hotel next door and booked ahead of time there no worries. We will stay there from now on and advertise that place instead 👌😉

[@saeternbros]

Wow!! My brother was charged 470,000 Kip

[@NowinLao]

At this same guest house?

[@lmapicas3279]

Honestly dude if a stranger is going to fix their hair for the video then you should at least run a comb thru yours prior to vlogging

[@yoojyim9560]

Well, they just lost a customer. Already know why they want Hmong Americans.

[@kondiminoi4333]

Wow that is very bad customer service. Hmong myself but I swore them Lao Hmong people don’t know any concept of business but try to milk as much as they can whoever they can, especially from the Hmong American. Sorry you and Neenee has to go through that. Good that you took your business elsewhere, they don’t not deserve your business. Those hotel sure milk the Hmong American good.

[@ewengillies9826]

Women are the same everywhere ... gotta look good for the camera. Hard way to take your truck for a wash .. sad outcome. Bushyboy Oz.

[@robc5520]

Awesome mate, Dam cheap bastard rorting me for 26.15minutes.. Cant you extend to at least 30? lmfao

[@NowinLao]

I'll make it up to you in the next one 😘

[@robc5520]

@@NowinLao hahahahaahaha.... your good

[@kuvxwb9555]

About your bad experience. I think since you're European and your wife is Lao, whoever you tried to do business with denied you because they can't cheat or bribe you like they do to the Hmong Americans.

[@NowinLao]

Something like that. They know who we are and we've stayed there many times. They know we know how much to expect to pay.. and like you said, would not be able to get the "premium" price out of us.

[@julianshalders6047]

Ventura hwy "America", cruisen music,😂, todd just check front wheel bearings by physicaly wobbling by hand to feel if there's any play, easy to adjust, corrugated roads give em a hammeren over time. Outer bearings, grease and adjust, just a daily check. If you don't big money to fix. Safe travels beautiful people.👍👌🙏🦘.

[@NowinLao]

Need to be lifted to check the front bearings?

[@rickyvang3485]

😂 they need American $dollars hehehe 😂