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Chiang Rai - Pakbeng
Ce matin j'ai commencé par 2 heures de route pour rejoindre la frontière du Laos, et plus je m'en rapprochais plus j'avais l'impression qu'on quittait définitivement le côté "riche" de l'Asie du sud-est. La route traversait des villages très pauvres et des rizières à perte de vue.
Arrivé au Mékong, d'un côté tu passes l'immigration thaï …
Nursing all the bed bugs bite
Things are very expensive in Laos. Every meal cost at least 5-6 USD. After another 8 hours on the slow boat. We eventually reached luang prabang. It is actually a very small city. The city center is almost like a angmo kio center. To cope with the itch. I took benadryl and the sleepiness effect pretty much explain of what we did most of the time in …
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Slow Boat Down The Mekong
... building a series of dams (up to 15 of them) and a navigation channel further upstream that is threatening to devastate this very complex ecosystem. As a fellow communist one-party state, Laos has traditionally had a very non-critical relationship with China, but hopefully this changes- the economic boom in China is sweeping Laos along in a much less dramatic fashion (ok thing) and China is in Laos in a big way developing some much needed infrastructure (good ...
Auf nach Luang Prabang
... Sitze hat...
Pünktlich um 9.00 waren wir am Anleger, denn was wir nicht wussten war, dass das Boot erst ablegt, wenn es voll ist. Das war dann um 11.30 der Fall.
Nun schippern wir also den Mekong hinunter und außer ein paar vereinzelter Fischer und ein paar Kühen und Büffeln gibt es nichts als Wälder und Hügel. Schön ist das auf jeden Fall aber auch etwas eintönig und ...
Cruising Down the Mekong River
... that is cooked two dishes at a time by the wife of the owner. They are an interesting couple. He is in his 80’s and looks around 50. They have traveled to various parts of the world and have the pictures on the wall to prove it. He was apparently trained at the Sorbonne in Paris back in the day. He is an interesting and gracious man.
After breakfast we head back to the water for our ...


