Six kilometers up the road from Vang Vieng the pavement breaks for 100 meters of road work. After the day’s sporadic rains the dirt has transformed into a creamy rust dough. The thick treads of roaring trucks have painted ruddy runways leading up to and trailing after the muddy pit. Just beyond is a village, [...]
The contrast between Bangkok and Vientiane is extraordinary. Vientiane would not rank among the slick, more-modern-than you Asian cities, the cities that never sleep: Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo. By 20:00 Vientiane is getting sleepy. It’s not a sexy cosmopolitan model; it is simply a petite neighbor. Not so much larger than Queensbury even, [...]
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