Saffron Coffee brings the cult of coffee to Luang Prabang, Top-notch riverside cafes have much to recommend them, but when it comes to Luang Prabang’s Saffron Coffee, everything starts with the coffee. From seedling to plant, from cherry to bean, from roaster to packaging, and from there to an...
It’s a conspicuously new building in a town lauded for its heritage charm, but Azerai, Luang Prabang’s newest luxury hotel, has drawn as much inspiration as possible from the previous building’s footprint. Set back from the street, the graceful two-storey façade is both sparkingly modern, and...
Sengmany Yathotou is on a mission. It’s a weekday morning in Naxayneua village, Vientiane, and on her family farm that borders on a national park, she is overseeing the milking of more than 100 cattle – peaceful, black-and-white Fresian dairy cows that produce around 15 litres of milk each a...
Keeping it real is the name of the game for Les Artisans Lao High above an art gallery, in a small room in a narrow building off a side street in downtown Vientiane, is a humming laboratory. There, young locals in white lab coats hover over heating and cutting machines, surrounded by glass...
A country could tell its whole story through food, if only it knew how. When Latsamy Vetsaphong first heard a western friend wondering aloud where they could buy some of the amazing delicacies they had tried while in Laos, she realised there was a gap in the market for Lao souvenirs. And when...
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