Vientiane (dpa) – Laos' old capital of Luang Prabang has been voted the “best tourist destination” by Britain's Wanderlust travel magazine for the third year in a row, media reports said Thursday. “Wanderlust is in the process of sending us the award for 2012,” Luang Prabang senior tourism expert Khamtan Somphanvilay told the Vientiane Times. Readers of the magazine also ranked Luang Prabang the best tourist destination in 2010 and 2011 as well. “We love the fact that your top city isn't about bright lights and fast living. No, laid-back Lao city Luang Prabang likes to take things slow. Really slow,” the magazine said about the former seat of the royal family in northern Laos. UNESCO declared Luang Prabang a World Heritage Site in 1995. An estimated 274,000 tourists visited the province where the city is located last year, of whom 43 percent were Europeans. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/lGblo Tags: Best City, Laos, Luang Prabang, Wanderlust Section: East Asia, Latest News, Travel
