Cessna Grand Caravan Heading To Luang Prabang

No, I didn’t take this plane, although that would have been an adventure! My Australian friends were on this plane. I was tempted to tell them about Channel 4’s “Worst Place To Be A Pilot”, an interesting and sometimes hair raising documentary about young pilots flying Cessnas in Indonesia, but I refrained.

A Child of Southeast Asia

November 21st 2017
Getting to Vientiane I had a lazy morning in Phonsavan. After eating the hotel breakfast, I wandered around the nearby market. Phonsavan’s market is huge - way out of proportion to the size of the town. My guess is that this market serves a large hinterland. There were Hmong in traditional attire too. After packing, I checked out at 11am. My flight to Vientiane wasn‘t until 1.20 ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more

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