Lao Bump Kins

  I don’t know what I was doing when Puan found me. Maybe I was looking at the village swing or kicking the dirt or studying the social hab...

liana or woody vine wrapping around itself . Great You Tube video. Sorry, embedding disabled by request of the producer, Journeyman Pictures...

above, Vang Vien Before Tourism Before I do a cut and paste from The New Statesman I'll give some background. Joe Cummings had a lot to ...

The Mekong just below Xienkok, the Nam Fa joins just out of the photo to the left There is a steep sided valley tucked away in the mountains...

Trucks with logs lined up at the border to Vietnam In my wanderings across cyberspace I stumbled upon this photo a few weeks ago with the ca...

Slash and burn or swidden agriculture is a natural part of the ecosystem of Northern Laos. It has been going on for hundreds and probably th...

Pawn a local advocate of environmental protection and sustainable tourism I think some background is in order. Just about a year ago the co ...

Strangler Fig.... First it uses the original tree for support in it's climb up to the sun, eventually it surrounds the host tree and cho...