Trekking from Muang Ngoi - Lao Lum, Khmu, and H'mong villages, transforming landscapes, spending a night in the 18th century and rejoicing at the thought of bathing in icy water...

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January 23rd 2013

Published: February 5th 2013

Our trek began with a boat ride south on the Nam Ou, adn a visit to Se Kong, a Lao Lum (a tribe of lowland Lao) village (in retrospect Meagan pointed out that this visit was probably because our local guide was late, but we didn't notice at the time...). We soon began trekking and the scenery was gorgeous, lush mountains one minute, then traversing dry rice paddies, strolling through animal fa... Read Full Entry

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Sadie & Øyvind

Sadieandoyvind

We are Sadie and Øyvind, she is 28 and Spanish-American (raised in Barcelona, American by passport) and he is 35 and Norwegian all the way. We are married and live in Oslo (moved here together in 2008) and we both work in film and TV, Øyvind is a photografer and Sadie is a director working as a koordinator/AD :) We are quitting our jobs, packing up and leaving for the trip of a lifetime together! Our plans are to be gone anywhere between 6 and 10 months, and we hope to get off the beaten track and maybe work/volunteer along the way in order to better get to know the countries we visit and t... full info

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First night

We all stayed at one family's house/storage/sleeping quarters the first night together with the whole family

Lets race!

One rooster is faster then three kids and a bamboo car

H'Mong culture

Our guide was explaining about the H'Mong peoples musical instruments and their dresses

Private show

After we understood a bit more about the H'Mong peoples dresses and instruments, we also got a private show

Leaf blower

The H'Mong woman can play using just the leaves, but its hard to get it right, as was demonstrated to us

H'Mong kids

The local kids showed a lot of interest in us, as tourists aren't that usual in their village

The bamboo car

This home made car picked up quite a lot of speed when going down the hills in the village

The trekking team

All of us agreed that we all had a great experience in every possible way, and that it really had been worth what we had put in

At school

When we visited the school in the first H'mong village, the kids was haning out the windows to look at the funny falang walking through their home

We made it..

at least up the first steep hill of the day - but a lot more was waiting for us

Bamboo trail

parts of the trail we walked on was almost completely covered with bamboo trees, and this made it sometimes quite hard to get anywhere

Bamboo forrest

Green lunch

When our guides found a bit of shade close to a river, they decided it was time for lunch, so they pulled up some chicken cooked the same morning, sticky rice, cut down some big banana leaves and there - lunch was served

Our locale guide

With flip flops and a knife, we were led through the thickening jungle, but it came to a point where there was no more space to swing the knife - then we had to turn around

Enjoying the sun

Master of the house

This old lady was keeping us company in the house we slept in in Ban Tap

Commuting

the local woman on their way home from work

Ban Tap Village

the second H'Mong village we visited was looking nothing but fantastic when we arrived with the sun getting ready to set

Shower

This is where we had our shower in Ban Tap Village. It was refreshing, and open to everyone

The last hill to Ban Tap

Our home for the night

this was the door to the house where we spent our second night

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