→ March 7, 2010
As we rose in elevation, we came across the remote Hmong village of Phou Luang Tai. The only way to get here is on foot, and it’s a seven-hour walk from Luang Prabang that ends with a steep climb, the kind that leaves you with sore thigh muscles and a pain in both knees. Add [...]
→ March 7, 2010
After two relaxing days in Luang Prabang, we embarked on a two day community-based trekking through Lao wilderness and small villages with the chance to experience the ‘real Laos’ with a village homestay. After a 2 hour walk, we stopped at a small village, and we made our first Khmu hill tribe encounter. The kids [...]
→ March 7, 2010
Our Lao detox started at 5.30am when we dressed and hurried down to the marketplace to assist to the traditional almsgiving ceremony. Well, maybe I should say when I woke up and hurried down to the marketplace…Guillaume being the exact opposite of a morning person, he didn’t manage to get out of bed so early… It [...]
→ March 7, 2010
Resplendent gold Buddha statues, Bougainvillaea trees peppered with fushia and pastel pink flowers, the safran robes of hundreds of monks and their multicoloured sun umberellas swaying in their wake, burnt ocres of the crumbling walls of French colonial houses and gleaming silver wats roofs… Colour and a sense of calm antiquity is everywhere in Laos’ foremost [...]
