Pic: ” Vientiane” by Staffan Scherz is licensed under CC BY 2.0 On my way to Vietnam earlier this year, I made a short four day stop in the capital city of Laos, Vientiane. The city, to my surprise, was far more relaxed and easy going when compared with other capital cities in its neighbourhood. There […]
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Laos: A River Song
I reckon there are probably not too many people who travel these days without the benefit of a guidebook but for those of you who do, you may be interested to note that it is not permitted to walk across the Friendship Bridge that marks the no mans land between Laos and Thailand. Don’t ask […]
Parting the Eco Curtain
Children are the biggest casualties whichever way you look at it. If you extrapolate the annual figure of current death from UXO in Laos and multiply it by the amount of years it will take to clear the land then 900,000 people who haven’t even been born yet are doomed to die.