MONTHLY ARCHIVES July 2017

Travel

The Katu of Southern Laos

Jul 1, 2017 4 0

I am standing in an immense, high-ceilinged wood and thatch building. There are no walls, so a slight breeze provides some respite from the heat, while Mr Viphat’s gravelly voice is recounting a story. It is said that, long ago, a great flood covered the world, leaving two survivors – a...

Lao Airlines

Commanding the sky

Jul 1, 2017 3 0

Standing on the baking hot tarmac at Vientiane’s international airport on a May afternoon, Soudaphone Visounnarath doesn’t quite know what to do with her arms. She’s a bit embarrassed to don the pilot’s cap she rarely wears, and is a tad uncomfortable in her full uniform outside on such a hot...

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