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The rapids on the Nam Khan River were a little more challenging than I thought

Kayaking Adventure

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427]

Kayaking down the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang in Laos...

Destinations: Vientiane | Luang Prabang | Laos | Lancang-Mekong River
Topics: Travel | National Parks | Adventure | 20th Century History | Ecotourism | Culture | Food | People | Beaches & Resorts | Agriculture | Sports | Nature
Communist leader Kaysone's whiskey bottle and glass

A Communist Leader Hat Trick

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427]

An athlete who scores three goals in a game is said to have achieved a hat trick. In Laos I visited my third Communist Leader memorial. My hat trick accomplishment was a rather surreal experience.

Destinations: Vientiane | Laos
Topics: Culture | Travel | People | Adventure | Religion | 20th Century History | Traditions | War & Conflict | Architecture
Monks are given rice by faithful women  on their early morning walk through Luang Prabang

Sticky Rice

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427]

After living in Asia for three years I thought I had tried every kind of rice dish imaginable. Laos held proved me wrong.

Destinations: Vientiane | Pakxan | Luang Prabang | Vang Vieng | Savannakhet | Pakxe | Luang Namtha | Laos | Plain of Jars | Lancang-Mekong River
Topics: Travel | Adventure | 20th Century History | Traditions | Ecotourism | Economy | Food | Culture | People | Working Abroad | Agriculture | Shopping
A young woman with a baby in the fields as vegetation is burnt off in the background, at a Hmong village resettled in the Xiengkhone district of the northern Laos province of Xayaburi.

Moving Lao Villages

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

* * * VIENTIANE, April 25, 2004 - Faced with a challenging topography and a dispersed population, Laos has gambled on a controversial poverty reduction programme of relocating villagers from remote,...

Destinations: Vientiane | Laos
Topics: People
That Luang

Getting Down in Laos, The Invented State

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

The Lao National Museum (LNM), located in the capital Vientiane, contains only a few exhibits dedicated to Laos before French colonization. These exhibits are generally dusty, shoddily made and...

Destinations: Vientiane | Laos
Topics: Culture | People | 20th Century History | Art | War & Conflict | Ancient History
That Dam, the Black Stupa in downtown Vientiane, conceals a seven-headed dragon which re-emerges to protect the city in times of danger.

Vientiane : When Will The Levee Break?

Philip Game - pgame [2,545]

How do we who weren't born yesterday, summon up Vientiane Before The Revolution, recalling that lotus-eaters' idyll on the Mekong through two decades of rose-colored haze? Some remember dining at the...

Destinations: Vientiane | Laos
Topics: Culture | Travel | People
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