Down the Mekong....
January 4th 2011 The trip from Huey Xai to Luang Prabang by "slow boat" takes 2 days - compared to the speed and noise of the fishermen seen along the river, the expression seems preposterous: our modernized junk-boat carries from 80 to 120 people. Its shape long and slender, its single aisle, a wooden roof and open windows, rows and rows of what used to be car seats, an exposed truck engine roaring in the back, m
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