Ban Pak-Ou, Laos
We head north to Phongsali which takes longer than expected, 3 days to be exact! We take a small and fragile looking wooden motor boat up the Nam Ou River. The Nam Ou is beautifully untouched, no roads, signposts or even fences are to be seen. It's easy to spent hours in the boat watching the scenery whiz by and just when I'm thinking how isolated it is here, we pass a family throwing nets into the river and gathering up their catch with use of a hand-held net (h...