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Chao Anouvong Park
City park
Scenic park with a riverside promenade, picnic areas & a nightly market of souvenir vendors.
4.10 (6.4K reviews)
3
Talat Sao Morning Market
Shopping mall
Daily market for traditional Lao handicrafts from textiles to jewelry, plus produce & street food.
3.90 (5.7K reviews)
4
Pha That Luang Vientiane
Buddhist temple
Historic 44-m. gold Buddhist stupa with multiple levels, a walled enclosure & a grassy courtyard.
4.50 (5.7K reviews)
6
Wat Si Muang
Buddhist temple
Buddhist temple built in the 16th century, drawing bustling crowds with the promise of good luck.
4.50 (2.5K reviews)
7
Wat Sisaket
Buddhist temple
19th-century Siamese-style temple with a museum & cloister wall housing thousands of small Buddhas.
4.40 (2.1K reviews)
8
That Dam Stupa
Pagoda
Ancient, bell-shaped stupa believed to have once been protected by a 7-headed water serpent.
3.90 (1K reviews)
9
Ho Phrakeo Museum
Museum
Former temple, built in 1565 for the Emerald Buddha (now in Bangkok) & today a museum & shop.
4.30 (1K reviews)
10
Patuxay Park
Park
Park surrounding an iconic arch that is a monument to those who fought for independence from France.
4.30 (762 reviews)
11
COPE Visitor Centre
Museum
Solemn visitor center & museum with displays & films on history of bombings & related disabilities.
4.70 (632 reviews)
12
Nam Phou Fountain
Fountain
Simple square featuring a circular, central fountain, illuminated at night with colorful lights.
3.90 (545 reviews)
13
Lao Textile Museum
Museum
Traditional building with silk samples & weaving demonstrations, plus a shop for handcrafted goods.
4.70 (431 reviews)
14
Wat Ong Teu
Buddhist temple
Renovated 16th-century Buddhist temple known for its bronze statues & vibrantly painted iconography.
4.40 (410 reviews)
15
Sacred Heart Cathedral - Vientiane - ວັດກາໂທລິກ
Catholic church
👍👍 Lovely, simple French-style church with original features from 1928. Closed except during Mass, but we were able to enter by asking Sister Jess. Lao masses each day, English Sunday 1030 am. There is a bulletin board display and a memorial to 17 martyrs. One adjacent building undergoing renovatio...
4.50 (235 reviews)
16
Wat Inpeng
Buddhist temple
👍👍 Beautiful architecture. Paintings all over walls and roof, the doors and windows are carved beautifully. The entrance is free.
4.20 (220 reviews)
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Kaysone Phomvihan Museum
Army museum
👍 An impressive building with two levels of exhibits of the life and times of Comrade Kaysone Phomvihane. Mainly photographs, but also some personal effects and gifts. It was interesting to understand the cooperation with Vietnam, both against the French and the Americans. There are also displays of e...
4.00 (200 reviews)
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Wat Mixai
Buddhist temple
😠 It's such a shame that they've taken the lovely little courtyard and gravel path that used to run between the school and the temple and paved it over with 20 tonnes of ugly grey concrete. Feel sad for the kids and the monks every time I walk through here now.
4.20 (178 reviews)