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Let’s Meet Lao Elephants!

Mar 1, 2019 0 0

Tips on how you can help Lao elephants and mahouts. Laos was known as the land of a million elephants. They have been used as beasts of war or burden, and until recent decades, for logging. Logging is extremely hard work both for elephants and their handlers, known as mahouts. Now tourism...

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Destination Pakbeng – A Mekong Oasis

Nov 5, 2018 1 1

Wonders await as Pakbeng transforms itself from a stopover to a destination in its own right. Forested mountains in wilderness proved highlighted of my eight-hour ride aboard a Shompoo Cruise to “Destination Pakbeng”. Some describe Pakbeng as little more tham an overnight stop on the...