Laos Ranked 3rd in Wanderlust Travel Awards 2020
2/19/2020 1:34:36 AM
haiviet Each year in Ovtober and November the magazine asks ít readers to rate their travels of the past year. The awards reach an audience of around half a million respinsive and curious trave
Laos scored 96.25 percent of satisfaction rates, winning the bronze medal in the awards.
"Lovely Laos rounds out the top three. Probably because it sums up lasid-back South-East Asia just right," the magazine said.
"Laos is smiley, scenic, good value and offers delicious cuisine with a pleasing amount of characterful hotels and modern comforts. Not so much that it's lost its charm and soul, though. Long may that last," it added.
Namibia topped the awards with 996.47 percent of satisfaction rates, followed by Peru with 96.33 percent.
Elsewhere in Asia, Japan came 5th with 95.63 percent, Vietnam in 9th with 94.49 percent and India in 10th with 93.33 percent.
In December last year, Laos's Luang Prabang ranked 11th in a list of top 20 places to travel in 2020, published by Architectural Digest. In the same month, Lao'Kuang Si Fall in Luang Prabang ranked 26 in the list of 50 ,ost destinations for Japanese tourists in 2019 complied by TripAdvisor Japan, maeking the first time for a tourist site in Laos to make the list.
Separately, in October last year, Booking.com Japan named Vientiane as the best city for walking tours in Southeast Asia where tourists could explore the city on foot day and night.
