Feb 7th, 2008
Wow Laos!
Wow Laos indeed! We sped through Laos in only a couple of weeks, but we had so much fun and met loads of really lovely people, from west and east.
There are two sides to this calm country. On the one side you find the lush green never-ending countryside, where people still work the land. Here are the wooden shacks on stilts, chickens pecking their way round the dusty tracks. Life is simple and slow. Apparently most children in Laos have never even seen a book, let alone read one.
On the other side of life you see the way the west have infiltrated this juvenile country. It’s only just reached it’s teens, hoping to catch up with it’s neighbouring older brothers who are getting rich quick and shedding their ‘developing world’ status. This is the side that caters for the extreme sport junkie and the rich holiday-maker.
Our first experience of this was in the rich ex-pat southern Continue Reading »