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Asia » Laos » North » Phongsali November 23rd 2007

As always i hope you and yours are doing well. this is the 4th and final blog on laos titled hill tribes. currently i am in northern Vietnam on a 3 day motorcycle trek. today is day one and if tomorrow and the next day are the same as today i should have a few great photos to share. Anyway, onto the hill tribes The first hill tribe trek that i took left from muang ngoi on the nam Ou river. First, let me mention that they are called hill tribes because they live on the "tops" of hills. We walked for a few hours with our guide before stopping in a village for lunch. From there it was about a four hour walk up to the Seang savang, a khmu village. we arrived shortly before ... read more
laos akha November 19, 200700733 L
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Asia » Laos » North » Phongsali December 16th 2006

On the first morning of my trek I met my guide, Sook, at my hotel for breakfast. He was a good guy, very earnest, and just passable in English. More importantly, he was trilingual in Lao, Punoi, and Laosang, which would cover most of the areas in which we would be trekking. He also had a most irritating habit of laughing if he didn’t understand me and laughing again whenever I rephrased the question in simpler terms. We got along well though, and I avoided strangling him because he was such a nice guy. After breakfast we walked to the market where I picked up the two necessities of trekking - a flashlight for finding a convenient place for night time ablutions (toilets don’t exist in mountain villages, or any Lao villages for that matter) and ... read more
Akha woman returning from the market
Leaving Phongsaly
Kids and their toys




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