Notre deuxième jour de voyage s'effectue entre Nongkiew et Luang Namtha, soit environ 250 Km. Il faut donc comprendre 6 heures de route. Oui, en voiture. De toute façon, si on atteint 60 Km/h, c'est en descente, tout droit, avec rien devant et pas de village en vue. Et ça, c'est pas possible. Parce que ça monte, ça tourne, y'a des villages partout et on n'est jamais à l'abri de se retrouver nez à nez (ou plutôt nez à pare-chocs) ...

met with Chanthavong on Wednesday evening at Tum Tum Cheng (a restaurant recommended by Odanie. Good but expensive ! Spending 12 euros in two appetizers and a lime soda is not what I call cheap in Laos !). He had just come back from Vientiane (the capital city of Laos) and had been delayed for 5 hours because of a huge mud landslide on the road. Now this is not an exceptional event. During rainy season, erosion is a wide phenomenon. During the dry season, Lao peo...

Luang Prabang, 7th SeptemberBon... Et bien ça fait une semaine que je suis à LP et que je n'arrive pas à me décider à bouger. Comme vous avez pu le lire sur Facebook :- je suis en mode farniente total, au sens le plus strict du terme : je ne fais RIEN. A quelques exceptions près... décrites plus loin. Mais qu'est-ce que ça fait du bien ! Et je me régale. - les laotiens sont à deux de tension, je n'ai jamais vu des gens aussi cools, relax, p...

I landed in Luang Prabang on Thursday morning. Immediately, you can feel this is not, definitely not Vietnam. You can't actually grasp the idea that there is a town, somewhere, around this airport. Or if so, it must be far and on top of it, everybody is on holidays. How to explain, otherwise, the very very low activity around ? The immigration office at the airport is tiny and yet, everything goes smoothly and fast. I shared a taxi with two girls, one of whic...

After the catastrophic Ha Long bay experience, and as said in the previous entry, I simply wanted to leave this country as soon as possible. However, a dinner had been organized for Wednesday evening with some good friends of FX (my former boss and ongoing friend !) so I had bought a plane ticket to Luang Prabang (Lao) for the Thursday morning. I am actually writing from Luang Prabang right now, waiting for my breakfast, in a very French-friendly place (I can rea...