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COPE Visitor Centre
Museum
Solemn visitor center & museum with displays & films on history of bombings & related disabilities.
4.70 (599 reviews)
(~2.37 km from centre)
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Lao Textile Museum
Museum
Traditional building with silk samples & weaving demonstrations, plus a shop for handcrafted goods.
4.60 (285 reviews)
(~4.21 km from centre)
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Pha That Luang Vientiane
Buddhist temple
Historic 44-m. gold Buddhist stupa with multiple levels, a walled enclosure & a grassy courtyard.
4.50 (5.1K reviews)
(~4.02 km from centre)
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Wat Si Muang
Buddhist temple
Buddhist temple built in the 16th century, drawing bustling crowds with the promise of good luck.
4.50 (2.3K reviews)
(~2.06 km from centre)
5
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 (225 reviews)
(~1.66 km from centre)
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Wat Sisaket
Buddhist temple
19th-century Siamese-style temple with a museum & cloister wall housing thousands of small Buddhas.
4.40 (1.9K reviews)
(~1.26 km from centre)
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Wat Ong Teu
Buddhist temple
Renovated 16th-century Buddhist temple known for its bronze statues & vibrantly painted iconography.
4.40 (374 reviews)
(~0.42 km from centre)
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Carol Cassidy Lao Textiles
Store
👍👍 Google maps got it right! Carol is a delightful, accomplished woman who has been helping to sustain the art of weaving for 4 decades. She is a joy . The quality of the woven pieces is impeccable. She alone has made our visit to Vientiane a highlight in our travels. So happy to see she is still aroun...
4.40 (38 reviews)
(~0.66 km from centre)
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Fountain
Tourist attraction
👍👍 Go in the evenings and wait for a fountain sound and light show to begin. It's free and it's also beautiful!
Watch out if standing too close to the edge of the fountains - sometimes the fountains cover people in water! The good thing about that is it made people blocking the view move away!
4.40 (31 reviews)
(~2.08 km from centre)
12
Patuxay - Victory Monument
Monument
Imposing 1960s war memorial featuring a European-style arch & traditional Laotian carvings.
4.30 (9.4K reviews)
(~2.02 km from centre)
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Ho Phrakeo Museum
Museum
Former temple, built in 1565 for the Emerald Buddha (now in Bangkok) & today a museum & shop.
4.30 (982 reviews)
(~1.34 km from centre)
15
Patuxay Park
Park
Park surrounding an iconic arch that is a monument to those who fought for independence from France.
4.30 (729 reviews)
(~2.26 km from centre)
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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 (209 reviews)
(~0.25 km from centre)
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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 (169 reviews)
(~0.57 km from centre)