Lao Bump Kins

Wikileaks has released it's cache of Laos files. I haven't read any of it yet, when I do I'll add to the end of the post. So far...

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 ...

The US ambassador to the Lao PDR has a blog Than Thoot Karen Best quote Usually the Embassy throws parties to celebrate special occasions li...

Of most import is the link below. Tourism Office Muang Long And a hat tip to Wandering Stray Cat or Lao Meao Below Mr. Tui in all his glory ...

I have no doubt as to where I am when I wake up to the sound of the saht hitting the koak-tam-kao. The foot powered pestle falling into the ...

This book is not yet available (4/2/11)  But who knows, it soon might well be. I'm not quite sure what Paul's last book was about, s...

We had lost the trail a long time ago and I for one had no idea where we were going and neither did my guide. If the local guide had a clue ...