The Beauty of Rural Laos

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March 6th 2007

Published: September 24th 2007

Arriving in Muang Ngoi by river boat was a pretty exciting prospect. Lonely planet describes it in a way that sounds like an idealistic travellers get away and I wasn’t disappointed. I travelled with some friends I’d met trekking in Luang Nam Tha and we met others in Nong Khiaw, just down river from our destination, where we stayed over for the night. Getting here from Nam Tha took an entire d... Read Full Entry

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Steve Collins

Stevie Boy

My name is Steve and I live in Berkshire in the UK. I was talking to Dad one day about amazing places and sights that must be seen before you die when it suddenly dawned on me. It had been 8 years since I started working for Rubicon and it was time to do something different. So in April 2006 I decided I would go travelling around the world and so far I've visited Scotland, India, Thailand and Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Australia. Keep up to date with my travels by subscribing to my travel blog. See you round the world. Steve... full info

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Children

These children who are part of our host's family are more used to having foreign strangers around. Still they look over the balcony in apprehension.

Cleft Pallet

I shouldn't imagine this poor little guy will be receiving any modern surgery to correct his cleft pallet.

Dinner is served

We have a variety of dishes to try and plenty of steamed and sticky rice. The Squirrel soup doesn't go down so well. Neither do the Black Ant Eggs but I thought they were rather tasty!

Buffalo graze on the dried up rice paddies

Boat Building

The boat building industry is in full swing around these parts.

Hat Sa

After a week in Muang Ngoi I head up river to the small river town of Hat Sa.

Evening Wash

I joined the villagers at Hat Sa in washing down by the river. No showers (or toilets) are provided at the only guest house in town.

Making Friends

At a road side party in Phongsali I make some friends during a day drinking as they celebrate the birth of a child.

Pom

Pom spoke good English and she taught me some Lao as well as helping translate to others.

Hydro Power

An old prop and a dynamo. This is how they generate some of their electricity.

Car wash

Would you like your bus washed? No problem just drive into the river.

24th September 2007

Jonathan Tully
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you're not going to come back!
Hi Steve, Good to hear about your adventures. As always, you're having a great time and by the sounds of things you might not ever come back to the uk!! Take care, Jonathan

31st October 2007

andrea
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Sabadai-ii from Vancouver
It was really nice to hear from you. We have got back from our trip in late September. Since then we have not got a chance to look back our pictures yet. So we enjoyed reading your itinerary a lot! Have you made it up to Phongsali? We stayed in Muang Khua for a 3 days trekking and we found much more then we were looking for. We had there an amazing experience in the tribal villages, so we never went up to Phongsali. How was it there? Where are you now? Are you in Australia? see-you

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