This Couple Moved To Laos 🇱🇦
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Kit and Makini of CZcams channel @Blasiantravelerss are an interracial couple that recently moved to Laos from America. In this video I hang out with them at the Sihom Street Food Night Market in Vientiane, Laos and interview them about their experiences regarding moving to Laos.
Watch their video on their channel here 👉 youtube.com/@blasiantravelers...
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A little bit about me…
My name is Dennis aka Dr. Wtpho. I was born in Laos. I’ve lived in Seattle since 1980.
For collabs or business inquiries, contact: drwtpho@gmail.com
IG: lao.ocean
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I went to Laos and Thailand in 2018 with my grandmother (she is now a US citizen, born in northern Laos) and my mom. I was scared to go because I am black AND Asian. Ever since then, it’s been my dream to move to Laos. I loved it so much there. It makes me so happy seeing people pursue my future plan! I wish them nothing but the best during this journey. They definitely make my dream more convincing haha. Both channels just got a new supporter ❤️🙏
hi, if you move to Laos, i can be your friend :)
@@GoodLifeGoodVibes-ie1kddude that’s kind of creepy 😆
Thank you. Yes they are so loving. Back when chaos ensued in the US during the last election my wife had her friends asking if I was okay and why was it like this. Laos is a country that is usually “looked at last” so they understand what it’s like got black people which makes it so easy to connect and not feel looked down on…if people like they are usually shocked because it’s rare or they’ve never seen a blank person before. To me that’s totally different than looking in disgust or fear
Thanks for a great video; good conversation. I visited Lao, my birth country a couple of months ago since I left 44 years ago. I know how the westerners spelled Laos, but I’m dropping the “S” and pronounce it correctly per my native tongue; same thing with Vieng Chan. Anyway, together with my Cambodian American husband, we also visited his birth country in 44 years since he left, just like me. OMG, compare to Cambodia we fell IN LOVE with Lao ❤️😍💕. We love the slower pace of lif 21:57 e and the chilled attitude of Khon Lao. So, we’ll choose Lao over Cambodia when the time comes. Right now still have to send two children to college 1st, which would be in 15 years. Since we came back we have been day dreaming about retiring there, and looking forward to make Lao & Cambodia our yearly trip now.
Happy New Year 🎊🎆
Great friendship conversation,I want to move to Laos.
With planning it’s very doable and easy actually. For a good life you need a reaction to retire compared to the US
Looks like a great night market there in Vientiane. Happy travels !
-- James
There are way better but it’s good for a casual meal if I’m the city or meeting someone
Would you eat “dancing shrimp”? I’ll make a video of us eating this yummy dish (😂) if we get 8 likes on this video! 💃🏻🕺🏻🦐✌️
Great video have been going back to visit family in Laos for the last 20 years,plans to retire in Laos in the future
Yes, I hate rushing in Sydney, Australia....I might come and live in " PLEASE DON'T RUSH and slow life country.😂😂😂🤙🤙🤙..thank you guys!
I really like this video and all the information. I'm Lao, who left with family in 1977 but have not gone back since. I'm living here in Atlanta and would really appreciate a video or information on how to visit Lao (passport, visa, etc.). I visited Bangkok last year, and that was as close as I got.
What a great conversation and interesting way of living! Laos is a charming and a simply beautiful place to live ❤ Can’t wait to go back home
Simple yet complex
@@blasiantravelerss Curious to know how you guys handle visa issues in Laos for a longer stay as a U.S. citizen. Might be useful for others thinking about doing the same thing you guys do
Wow! I came from the same town that she mentioned. It's my childhood banh too.
Oh that’s crazy
Great video!
Dennis you have a good sense of humor & your communication skills is 👍🏻
Thank you!
i really enjoy watching you guys talking
Thanks. Hopefully we can have more of these collabs
Let’s take a vote and choose one. The following are the names which Vientiane (Intl Officially being used today) have been called in the past: Mueang PaiNamh (ເມືອງໄຜ່ໜາມ), Mueang Sisattana Khanahoot (ເມືອງສີສັດຕະນະຄະນະຮຸດ), Mueang ViangChan (ເມືອງວຽງຈັນ). I am voting for PaiNamh (The Walled Thorny Bamboo City).😊
Haha thanks for having us on the channel. Give that comment 8 likes, you won’t regret getting access to that video, especially if Kats reaction is in it😂
It was great hanging out! See you both again soon! ✌️
Good video..👍👍
On day I would like to go visit Lao too..
It’s worth a visit
It’s great for a young people to do what you guys are doing. But for old folks, you have to think about your health as well. Medical care in Laos or Thailand is on cash only. It isn’t cheap. No cash, no treatment.
It is very much so cheap. Old doesn’t also mean unhealthy, if you’re unhealthy you should provably work on that as best you can before moving…but even then for example you can get a luxury check up with bloodwork in Bangkok and spa services for $150 in the USA that will run you maybe $1000. LASIK a few hundred bucks. A days hospital stay for under $100 per day with no insurance, without surgery and with medicine being another $100 or so
Hi Dennis...I was afraid that this video meant you and Amanda had moved permanently to Laos. I haven't been on CZcams for quite a while so I am wondering if you guys are just on vacation or planning on moving to Laos. What a lovely couple, this video was so informative yet wonderfully upbeat. Safe travels and btw I am subscribing to this couples new channel. Anxious to see how their restoration of the home is turning out.
Hi there! Amanda and I are on an extended vacation; we have not moved to Laos. ☺️
@@LaoOcean Good to hear, Pike Place is waiting for a Christmas visit from you.
@@candismith4080 Unfortunately I won’t see Pike Place till mid January.
@@LaoOceanEnjoy your vacation....see you in the New Year.
I love to see how far the That Luang economic zone coming ?
Possible video idea: traveling in Laos with no family to stay with and how to stay safe as someone that doesn’t speak Laos fluently. I only understand the very basics haha
Learn the language!
Google translate and classes cost like $20/mth here in Laos or online could be $150
Plus with the train it’s easier than ever and a motorbike cost like $200 for a used manual one
Nice
Arkansan in the house...been here almost a month.
How you liking it?
@blasiantravelerss it was fun the first year I went there. Now it is like any other place. Maybe because I'm not single anymore..lol. my wife and kids are still in Laos. I'll be back there in March to pick them up.
I wish the Lao government would granted the people who were born there to be able to buy property in their name and or have dual citizenship, not either or.
good conversations not about to give up my Canadian citizenship for birth right but nice to know there is that option I know that the visa rules for a Lao born has improved since around two years ago I saw a parliamentary video on youtube... they are trying to improve visa for all foreigners hope it works out
Hope soon Laos can have a dual citizenships,especially for the Laos born want to retire in Laos.
Just gotta get a long term visa. I think you can get like a year or so. Obviously it’s more expensive but you don’t give up your citizenship and you get unlimited crossing into Thailand I believe
@@blasiantravelerss the regular way with 3 month extensions cost 1/2 as much as the one year I think but need to make the trips
@@bounthavynonginthirath1917 the philipines has a good system good example for Lao
@@LAOBASS Hope some day it's going to be like that,because the more Lao descendants that live in Europe,North America,Australia or the other countries that have very good rate currencies that want to retire in Laos are going to bring that money into the country as well.
Lots of people in USA travel to Asia and people know Laos its 2023 not 1999. 😂😅
A lot of people don’t actually. Especially since most Americans (north central and south) don’t travel to Asia as frequently as Europeans or Australians do
Vientiane is a French given name, Vieng Chan or Vieng Jan is the original names for the capital city for some reason Lao overseas they pronounced Vientiane lol.
Laotian is also a French given name for Lao people formerly known as Ai Lao people the largest ethnic groups of people in the World originated from Altaic mountain, Mongolia they been living in China since the Neolithic period in around 12th century large numbers of Lao people migrated from Kunming, China to modern day Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.
Lan Xang kingdom was named after Lan Cang river in Yunnan, China.
China, Hainan Island, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Northeast India, Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Philippines was actually founded by Lao descendants.
Lao Sze Sichuan, Nanping Lao, Lao Yunnan, Lao Shanghai, Lao Beijing, Mulao, Gelao, Gelong, Dong, Sui, Bouyei, Rau, Zhuang, Dai, Tai, Thai, Kra-Dai, Tai-Kadai, Yue, Baiyue, Yayoi, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Filipinos are Lao descendants.
Genetic studies.
A 2007 analysis of the DNA recovered from human remains in archeological sites of prehistoric peoples along the Yangtze River shows high frequencies of Haplogroup O1 (Y-DNA) in the Liangzhu culture, linking them to the Austronesian and Tai-Kadai peoples.
Feb 06, 2017
Researchers discover Korean genetic roots in 7,700-year-old skull
Genetics.
DNA research has shown that Sichuanese people are closely genetically related to the Daic (Dai Chinese).
Most of central Sichuan was inhabited by the Dai people who formed the serfs class, accounting for the vast majority of the population.
Hubei Han show significant evidence of genetic admixture deriving about 63% of ancestry from Tai-Kadai or Austronesian-speaking southern indigenous groups and 37% from Tungusic or Mongolic related northern populations.
Han Chinese in Zhejiang and Shanghai have the highest concentration of Kra-Dai types of Y haplotypes among all the Han populations in China, suggesting a possible expansion of Kra-Dai peoples from southern China to Zhejiang via Jiangxi.
A haplotype (haploid genotype) is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent.
This is all great info
Sabaidee wow awesome info, you must be an historian or scientist either or your very smart and as a Lao American I thank you!
Please tell me how they get a long term stay in Laos? I am interested. Thank you
I think many folks just do a visa run every 90 days. $40 per visa application.
Yeah I was wondering the same
How do you get a fast laos passport? If you plan to travel within 2 months.
It’s visa on arrival
@@blasiantravelerss you mean do laos visa when arrive in laos airport? How much cost each person?
It’s cheap for foreigners, but for Lao people , it isn’t.
In this video we are talking from a foreigner perspective, but you are right
Viengchanh.. not Vientiane
Question to Lao Ocean, can u speak Lao and where do u grow up? And what yours real name
He speaks it pretty fluently. If you watch his other videos you can see him speak the Lao language there
Khao Jee Pate is literally mean bread bread.
Khao Jee is a Lao word for Bread, Pate is a French word for bread.
It’s like saying chai tea 😂
@kingofthehill pate is reference to the liver pate that they spread on the bread. Both Lao and Vietnam does that
ពួកនាក់ទាំងអស់គ្នាហើយខ្ញុំចាប់ផ្ដើមអាយុចូលពាក់កណ្ដាលក្នុងជីវិតរបស់មនុស្សហើយអញ្ចឹងហើយយើងត្រូវតែនាំគ្នាដើរសប្បាយៗក្នុងជីវិតដែលនៅសល់ពាក់កណ្ដាលបន្តទៅទៀត។ 🍜🍜🍛🍦🍷😂
All about the visa.
Lao PDR: Lao people don’t rush.
Please don’t use the word “Cheap “, instead use affordable. Laotians would be offended likewise by Singaporeans visiting other countries with strong SG currency .
Lao people even know it’s cheap compared to other places for certain stuff. Don’t think it’s disrespectful. 20k Kip for soup is cheap for those that know life outside of their box or are on Facebook, which most people are. Affordability is a separate topic and it’s actually cheap but not affordable from their point
Hope all is well. I just saw a video by sabbatical about the part of Laos thats ruled by China and how they have us white slaves there. Americans, Taiwanese and some other foreigners are not allowed in there. Interesting...
This must be the area by the Golden Triangle. White slaves?? I need to watch that video.
I will visit Laos, but will never live there.
PLEASE…….pronounce the capital city of Lao correctly!!!!!!! Don’t let foreigners dictate how we as Lao people speak…Veing Chan that is the only way it’s properly pronounced….It’s is so annoying especially coming from a Lao person…STOP
I understand and appreciate this comment and feel two ways about this still.
You’re giving out false information about Laos when you’re not informing your viewers on the proper pronunciation of the capital city. In addition to that you’ve mentioned we as Lao people immigrated to the USA..that’s false, we were refugees, big difference!
@@Aenoy916_Cali That is the international way of pronouncing it. Tell the French to take away the S in Lao then. And this video is not a college course, we’re talking along general lines. I do know the difference between immigrants and refugee immigrants.
Ee Lasoy needs to go back to school!
@@LaoOcean My brother, I understand you’re not trying to teach a course. However, with thousands of people viewing your channel, that comes with a huge responsibility to correctly inform your audiences. Would you pronounce Louangprahbang the way foreigners pronounce it? You know how they say it “ bang “ and just because thousands of people pronounce it one way, that doesn’t make it right.
You was kinda close bro but LPDR stands for Lao People Don’t Rush….Moving here from NYC 15 yr’s ago was the best choice I ever made in my life….
Oh wow that’s a big difference
How do you live there permanently? I wonder if I can get my grandma's house back when they escaped to Thailand from the Viet Lao Communist.lol
@@619elephant9that house is gone bro don’t even waist your time