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Monday 07:00 - 11:00 Tuesday 07:00 - 23:00 Wednesday 07:00 - 23:00 Thursday 07:00 - 23:00 Friday 07:00 - 23:00 Saturday 07:00 - 23:00 Sunday 07:00 - 23:00

Mali House

Name: Mali House
Address: Luang Prabang, 06000, LA
Telephone: +8562055580076
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.5

Mali House is a new and in traditional Lao style located right in the Morning Market. Mali House is brand new and open for guests.
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we are located in the center of the UNESCO World Heritage part of town, directly in the morning market. We are 100 meters from the Royal Palace Museum, Night Market and Phou Si Mountain-and only 50 meters from the Mekong River. We have lovely rooms with air-conditioning, awesome hot water rain-showers and two of our rooms at the front of the house have a private balcony. You can enjoy a coffee fro

m our on-site coffee shop and enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of a bustling market. And finally you may relax and allow our world-famous hospitality to make your stay in Luang Prabang a memorable one. We can arrange for private tours where you may visit off-the-beaten-path places in town and in the country side.

31/12/2023

I made a series of house rules in various languages. The one that is displayed in the room is English, Thai and Chinese. Google Translate is a blessing

27/12/2023

Mali House: Amazing place to stay - See 26 traveler reviews, 68 candid photos, and great deals for Mali House at Tripadvisor.

26/12/2023

yesterday we had a diverse crowd at Mali House:
Chinese,
Thai,
Czech,
Canadian,
French
(not including American, Lao and Lao/American)

26/12/2023

Santa Claus brought new socks for everybody this year. And purely by chance, my housekeepers and I all wore the same color.

16/12/2023

My new spread on the front of the coffee shop. We're gonna have to build a bigger shop to accommodate all the headlines that are coming down the pike.

15/12/2023

sometimes I can be so naughty.

last evening Mali and I were having dinner at a folding-table-sidewalk restaurant in front of her Grandfather's house.

As we ate, a trio of men were walking up and down the street with their entourage and cameramen in tow taking photos and video of them enjoying the sites and shopping in the night market. They were obviously celebrities of some kind, and I would guess that they were Taiwanese or Chinese.

On their third pass, I was feeling tempestuous so I said,
"Excuse me, excuse me! can I have your autograph?"

They turned to me, and one of them said with a beaming smile,
"Do you really want one?"

"No" I said and continued eating. Mali wanted to melt into the table.

15/12/2023

I love Google Translate.
it's helpful even whilst watching Hogan's Heroes.
BTW, this show, I am told, is one of the most popular shows in Germany.

13/12/2023

scenes from the morning market, including Mali Orange Juice and Mali Coffee.

13/12/2023

the passion fruit from Luang Prabang is the best that I have ever had. obviously all the rain that we saw the last two months contributed to their lusciousness.

13/12/2023

A Monk came for coffee

13/12/2023

I made this nifty little PDF document for distribution to my guests. Unfortunately I cannot post a PDF to Facebook so I've left the screen shots here.

13/12/2023

A Monk came to coffee

08/12/2023

A lady taking a picture of the "anti-Donald Trump" signs I have hanging on the front of the coffee shop. She was using a disposable film camera. I didn't think they made those anymore.

07/12/2023

When Mali and I went to Vientiane in June, I visited the great Koalao Company which is a joint Korean/Lao company selling and maintaining all things automotive-Korean, but showing some love to Laos.

the only damage on my 20 year old dashboard is the plastic bowl and sister Kit ordered me one, but said that it has to come from Korea and therefore would take six months.

Out of the blue I WhatsApp-ed Tik yesterday, and she hit back that "it just came TODAY". amazing.

02/12/2023

Came to Viva Pasta tonight by myself.
Well, sort of.
This little black guy came and sat on my lap while I ate. Had Fungi pasta--my new fav. 60,000 Kip ($3USD)
The lovely owner wanted to gift me my dinner tonight but I respectfully declined. It's true that I send a lot of tables to her but I do it because it's quality food with a great atmosphere and very laid-back.

02/12/2023

Elisabeth & Peter from Germany. They spent several nights in "grandma's room", the terrace room downstairs.

The red tassels hanging down are from my Ok Phansa stars.

21/11/2023

Full disclosure: this Guesthouse is vehemently anti-Chump. In furtherance of this, I hung a couple of mug shot type photos in front of the coffee shop. All morning long people have been walking by and taking photos, and some children even fantasized about shooting at this putrid human being.

18/11/2023

a few weeks ago, Annie-Claude came back to us after 6 years. Today Sabine returns after 8 years. What a blessing.

16/11/2023

Mali joined me for b'day dinner at VP. This is a lovely spot Right in the center of town, but up a small lane where it is quiet and charming. I love her bamboo theme. The pasta was delicious, hand made and fresh. But the best thing was the price. Mali and I had Bolognese and the price was $2.50. Carbonara's next.

15/11/2023

The view from one of the most famous restaurants in Luang Prabang. It's a "Lao omelette" made with egg and rice milk, two very special kinds of ham, morning glory and bean sprouts. You then mix up a sauce of molasses, chili, crushed peanuts and soy.

The cost of this awesomeness is only $1.50 US

11/11/2023

the Morning Market in front of and around Mali House. a cacophony of sights and smells.

11/11/2023

Two nice ladies came for coffee this morning and we were flabbergasted and befuddled to see that our coffee mugs had depictions of Kraków and Warsaw as they were from Poland. They were equally stymied and taken aback when I told them that Venus got these mugs at the 10,000 KIP store (50¢)

31/10/2023

In retaliation for taking A/C's picture, She took this one of me ironing Mali's school uniform shirts

31/10/2023

My super-guest A/C who has returned to us after six years. She brought me pate foie gras .

28/10/2023

It's Ok Phansa weekend.
The Fire Boat Festival

28/10/2023

Ok Phansa festival schedule

Event for The End of Buddhist Lent Days and
Candle Light Festival in Luang Prabang
World Heritage City period 28th – 30th October 2023

27/10/2023

I am happy to say that Mali House is full until the middle of November. I currently have two rooms on November 17, then full again for a time. From now through New Years Eve you won't see any availability for Mali House on Agoda at all. I closed out the inventory so that I wouldn't have to deal with their nonsense (yes, I am not a fan). But you can still find the pitiful few that exist on Booking.com if you so choose.

I guess tourism is back in Laos.
here are two Novices on the Nam Khong ferry.

26/10/2023

Mali House' garden.
My friends Oloff & Ineke of Luang Prabang Butterfly Park might be proud of me.

08/10/2023

My best friend since grade 1 is on her way to Lao for the second time. I have been following her route on flightaware and at one point I made a screenshot that showed the route passing over Damascus, Beirut and Israel. about 10 minutes later I noticed that the flight was diverted south out of harms way.

07/10/2023

Great Wall, 2005
on my first visit to Beijing. I went to further parts of the wall in later trips, and more photos will be forthcoming.

05/10/2023

Lowell Folk Festival, July 2004
featured the legendary Abyssinians backed by non other than the greatest reggae band on the planet, Loose Caboose. 'Caboose is fronted by my bestie, Ras Jona and as a bonus I was able to be onstage and back stage to photograph the festivities. The founding brothers of the Abyssinians have a picture of the trio on their living room wall that I took of them at the Vermont Reggae Festival. They told me that it is one of their all time favorites.

hanging in their living room? that's an affirmation.
I am honored.

03/10/2023

my favorite ship of all time, the Provincetown II.

she was launched in 1980, and was certified to carry up to 1150. The maiden voyage from Boston to Provincetown saw 450 passengers face monster seas, the worst of which were right off my hometown of Cohasset. the prow was burying its self in the oncoming waves, filling the foredeck and then slamming that water against the superstructure. We passed out thousands of popcorn cups for people to use to express their displeasure at the sea without doing it all over the deck (which they did by the hundreds anyway). the ride back was lovely, but almost all the passengers opted for a bus instead. This ordeal was made possible by the fact that the marine architect and owner were onboard. on a normal day this trip would have been deemed too hazardous and called off.

On a personal note, I was the first to jump from the TOP of the pilothouse, and I count six stories or decks. you had to get a running start and leap out far enough to clear the bridge-wing. at Provincetown, because it was a T pier, you couldn't see the water at all as you jumped, and had to trust your friends. people actually threw coins to us.
I was also the cook serving breakfast to over 500 people at times on the morning trip across Massachusetts Bay.

Never got seasick on this vessel.
Saw the worst seas, had the best inhibitory.

03/10/2023

from early in my tenure in Shanghai, we start with pictures of Pudong from the Bund. for those who know Shanghai now, Pudong will appear spartan compared to what it has become. The Jin Mao was the tallest in the world, and soon there will sprout two more buildings right across the street that will go on to become the world's tallest in their own right. Then there are pictures from the top of the Oriental Pearl Tower and then a few of my kite collection (hand-made, bamboo and tissue).

02/10/2023

shanghai science museum 2002

30/09/2023

Took my guests from South Africa to the Rice Field restaurant café for a snack and some beautiful views

29/09/2023

With Mali whilst taking her to school.

29/09/2023

From Phu Si at the height of Covid.
Beautiful still.
When this photo was taken Mali House was still empty, and I was living in Mali‘s room in a tent for one year.

Address

Luang Prabang
06000

Opening Hours

Monday	07:00 - 11:00
Tuesday	07:00 - 23:00
Wednesday	07:00 - 23:00
Thursday	07:00 - 23:00
Friday	07:00 - 23:00
Saturday	07:00 - 23:00
Sunday	07:00 - 23:00

Telephone

+8562055580076

Website

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mali+House/@19.8908865,102.1337322,20.21z/data=!4m20!1m10!3m9!1s0x312f2a699268e495:0x4

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Videos

Mali House' garden. My friends Oloff & Ineke of Luang Prabang Butterfly Park might be proud of me.

Ok Phansa, the Fireboat Festival is coming up next month. Years ago when I made this video, our guests were given the honor of marching in the parade with our village boat, and it made for a memorable experience.

Venus and I stayed with my Mother-in-Laos for the summer of 2010. The Luang Prabang Library used a traveling "library boat" to deliver books to rural children. you could check out a book or two, run to the temple for shade under a banyan tree and read. If I remember, they gave the children about two or three hours before moving on to the next village. This is Sili, my niece. She's almost 20 now.

The night market in front of Haw Pha Bang, The temple built in 1963 at the Royal Palace Museum

Finally it has stopped raining in Laos. It's been fairly constant for the last six days but the sun was out this morning. The Nam Khong (Mekong) is up about 25 feet to about 20 feet below street level.

February 2015 Xayabouri Elephant Festival. we loaded up most of our guests in two minivans, including my Bestie Jonathan, and drove three hours to the annual Elephant Festival. On the way back we happened across a very lovely waterfall.

June, 2010 Our third Anniversary. we drove to Nong Kiew (a very nice stop after Luang Prabang) and took a longtail up the Nam Ou to Mung Ngoi. There was nobody in town, and as it was our special time, I rented both sides of a riverfront bungalow for privacy. total cost: $6

This is Mali giving alms in the morning back when she was three years old. This is in front of my father-in-law’s Guesthouse.

Before the "world moved on" we used to offer our guests the opportunity to go 70 KM north to our friend's village of Na Ham. There you would help them cook lunch featuring their own sticky rice. Later, after a tour on the river in a longboat, you can climb to the cliff face and see where the mountain spirit lives. Later you prepare dinner and head out through the rice field featured in this video to a spot near the waterfall where there is a an open air hut. If you're up for it, you can spend the night under a mosquito net and listen to the rice frogs sing. this video stars Mali (when she was 7), my bestie Jules from NSW, our dear friend from Na Ham who is the hero who carries Mali up the hill to the waterfall.

This clip is from the very famous Louangphrabang omelette shop right at the bottom of our street. They have a lovely deck that overlooks the Nam Khong. Just below the dip in the mountains is the ramp for the car ferries which is open 24 hours a day as now you can cross the river here and drive to Thailand.

This is boat racing festival, which takes place in August each year on the Nam Khan about five minutes walk from our house. The all-green team in the first race was our village, Ban Pakham. This video was shot in 2014, our first year here after leaving Shanghai.

…… Here we enter the Hmong market Where they have live music, at least 25 restaurants and Venus’ juice (Mali organic fruit and vegetable shop). I went for some Korean kimbap @ $1.57 USD per order. Yummy

Mali House faces the morning market, and if you walk down a bit and turn left, you can access the night market up this narrow lane. Notice the wheeled containers for the night market stock, and all of the brightly colored shops…….

There are a LOT of tourists who are "revenge traveling", and Luang Prabang is loaded with visitors, even during a time when in past years we would be entering the low season. But not this year! right now Mali House has been full for 68 days running thanks to our awesome guests, and we hope the trend continues :) Just look at this throng in the morning market and poor Lea (in the purple sweater) trying her best, and doing a GREAT job, selling coffee.

Lao dance in front of Oud and Vong's guesthouse for a memorial ceremony. notice that they are dancing on the centerline of the road as they will often close the entire street and then, just when you are trying to get somewhere, you need to find another way.

The night market is hopping at Chinese New Year. This the year of the Rabbit. Both Mali and I are rabbits.

Ok Phansa parade which runs along the "night market street" to the end at Wat Xiengthong. Didn’t go there this year because of huge crowds ( I’ll re-post another older video of that later ). Mali and Sumala are on the hillside next to the road and I am street level right across from the Royal Palace, about 120 meters from our house. In years past our guests have had the honor of being able to guide our village's boat in the parade and maneuver it into Wat Xiengthong. Then, of course, carry it down the 60 stairs to release it into the Nam Khong (Mekong).

This is a video that I made of the Lantern and Fire-Boat Festival from a few years back. The video begins at Wat Mai, our village temple, where there are HUNDREDS of lanterns, and the Novices and Monks spend the entire night keeping them lit. Then there is the parade and finally the launching of the boats into the Mekong. This year the festival starts on the 6th of October and lasts about a week. each village builds a boat constructed from bamboo, banana tree trunk and colored paper, and must be lit by candles and kerosene lamps made from small bottles. There is a parade to Wat Xieng Thong where they have a competition for the best boat, and then they are released into the Mekong. in the past, we have built a small guesthouse boat and our guests have helped decorate it and carry it down to the river for launching.