At first glance, there doesn’t seem much to Muang La. Therein of course lies its charms. Being right in the heart of a small community, Vincent Vichit-Vadakan gains insights into local life. My first morning I went for a long walk around the town. I stopped to see a family drying jungle...
Each year throughout the country, between Lao New Year in mid-April to the beginning of the rainy season in June, Lao people celebrate in this hottest and driest period by launching homemade rockets (bang fai) into the sky to call for rain. The rockets are made in long lengths of PVC pipe or...
Beginning with a simple Facebook group, Danish entrepreneur Jeppe Carlson, or JP as he is known, set himself on the path to launching the first digital agency in Laos. That Facebook group was So-So Club, an online meeting place for young people that were not lo-so (low society), but not hi-so...
EAT Pizza Luka Set in the garden of a local house, Pizza Luka serves up delicious pizzas from their outdoor oven. From the bar, you can watch the master as he creates your dinner. Local ingredients, like goat cheese, combine excellently with imported sausages to create flavors uniquely Vang...
Watching the sun set over the banks of the Mekong has to be one of the great draw-cards of visiting Laos. That these banks are relatively undeveloped, in Laos at least, to some is one of its greatest assets. The Mekong may be one of the world’s great rivers, alongside, the Mississippi, the...
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