Lao Bump Kins

I've been following a new web site from Vientiane on Facebook. It seems to keep tabs on current events in the capital maybe from an expa...

Sun setting over the bridge on that day a decade and a half ago Laos began for me the way lots of things do, as a visa run. It was the late ...

                                           Abandoned Mansion on Mekong 2001 A couple of months ago I was contacted by an online media specia...

Tree in front of Wat Song Buay on the way there To kill time waiting to leave Laos I took my rental bike and drove up to the Hmong town at k...

It would be difficult to spend much time in Laos and especially in the houses and villages of the Lao Seung (upland peoples) without develop...

I love these outlines in the road. Somehow they seem to trace the edges of a life, well maybe a wrecked motorcycle anyway. I took this up at...

I like the Black Stupa in that it is a historical Tat that is simply in the middle of a roundabout in the middle of a busy town. No one sell...

This is a street I started eating at the last month I was in Laos. We moved into a new rental over in Ban Amon, and though nice it didn'...

Barber Shop Ban Nong Tang. Above is the place down the road that I went to most often. Creag was usually well behaved. It was also my chance...

Above is a picture of the ones that are out to kill you. In twelve years Laos has gone from having almost no private motor vehicles to about...

Jeao Maclen, grill with meat cooking in the background The other day I was in town and it had been a long time since breakfast. Seeing this ...

Foe Pronounced Fuhhh. Spelled in Vietnamese as pho, it’s pronounced the same. Whatever you call it, I call it liquid heaven. When the French...