Xiangkhoang, on the north east of Laos, border to Vietnam. The capital is Phonsavan literally means "Hills of Paradise". Its original name was Muang Phouan. A population of 37,000. Its lush green forest, with pine trees everywhere, rugged kartz formation, valley with plenty of rivers, caves and waterfalls. People are friendly, mostly agricultural and livestock. Peaceful and breathtaking. People have other names for this place. I called this place, The Swiss of The East. About two kilometres from the town, there is a plateau which was named Unesco World Heritage. It is the Plain of Jars. It is about 2500 years old, a megalithic archaelogical landscape, scattered at the low foothills and uphill valley. The archaelogists has discovered prehistorical burial artifacts and human remains. There are about 400 jars discovered this moment. In the morning, we ... read more

KLTGA celebrated 46 years anniversary yesterday. This was the day , Diana Lee, Teh Lai Chin and my goodself went round scouting tourist guides in town, places of interests, where you have no trouble looking for them. We were distributing goodie bags to KLTGA tourist guides, small token for tourist guides from other associations. The KLTGA was so kindly to draw out a thousand ringgit for Diana Lee to buy all these gifts. Diana Lee is one of the driving force in our association. She bought the gifts herself, she drove us around scouting for the tourist guides on duty. We laughed at the thought where tourist guides may run away from us, thinking we are the enforcers giving them a hard time, looking out at their working attire and conduct while on duty. No!!!, we ... read more