Lao kids went just crazy with the ‘magic camera’… Check out the full story of the Polaroid project in Laos here and here.

It was our last day in Luang Prabang and we decided to spend the last of the dying light here by the Mekong River. We went down the banks in the low setting sun washing the river with a streak of golden light cutting through the choco-coloured waters of the river. Perfect time to say said good [...]

The sun was going down on Luang Prabang. In the middle of the Mekong river, on a dusty and dry bank of sand, Lao kids were playing soccer. We were watching them when I was invited to join the game… “A piece of cake” I told myself, after all Laos’ Fifa world ranking is 178th, just between [...]

During our two day trip to Phouluang Tai, we visited the local school, a shack with two blackboards and some battered wood board acting as school benches, packed with no less than fifty school kids, all ages in one classroom with one very young teacher desperately trying to keep them quiet. When they saw us they [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From the majestic holy Angkor Wat to the enigmatic face-covered Bayon, from the ‘Tomb Raider’ Ta Prohm to the enigmatic ‘Indiana Jones’ Beng Mealea , the risk of temple burn-out could have been high… But we were far to templed out in Angkor! The temples are so diverse and different from one to another, you can’t [...]

Tired of doing DisneyLand Space Mountain for the fifth time?? Well, you should try the Cambodian Wheel of Death. After a day of visiting temples in Angkor, we were passing by Lolei, a small village near the Roluos temples. Mr Lam, our tuk-tuk driver, noticed that something big was going on and invited us to a local funfair. We [...]