Behind the Mountain (or: A Night Among the Hmong)
January 13th 2007 Xavier:
On Wednesday Sarah and I went for our most epic jaunt yet - an overnight trek. This one was all about visiting ethnic minority villages in some of the mountains in Luang Prabang. A surprising large proportion of the country's population live in quite basic rural villages, and we got to visit several.
Our tour guide was another soft spoken Lao (Lee) and we had a 30 year old American T
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