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April 15, 2006Emails From LeilaWOW what a city. BANGKOK is alive. It is New year for them amd they celebrate with water. The streets are alive with people walking arround with water pistols and...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 15, 2006 03:14 AM
TrackBack | Category: Bangkok, Culture, Funniest Experiences, Thailand Sangkren Water FestivalDay before yesterday was New Years in Lao. Yesterday was New Years in Thailand, although the celebration continues for several days in these countries. We get it again! Leila took...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 15, 2006 01:10 AM
TrackBack | Category: Bangkok, Conversations, Culture, Festivals & Ceremonies, Flights, Taxis, Thailand Tuk Tuk TourAfter the Lao Cotton Company party, Villa, the driver, took a nap in his tuk tuk while we rested in our room. Later that night we toured the city under...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 15, 2006 01:00 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Conversations, Lao April 13, 2006Sabaidee Pi Mai Lao!Lao New Year is a time to encourage young people to absorb the spirit of cleaning their temples, houses, stupas of their ancestors and apparently the bodies of anyone, especially...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 13, 2006 12:29 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Culture, Dancing, Festivals & Ceremonies, Food, Lao April 12, 2006Thai Rock BandAfter dinner with Susan, Leila and I looked for some music and found a night club with a terrific Thai band playing Rod Stewart, Eagles and Pink Floyd's "The Wall."...Read this update April 11, 2006VientianeSeeing the Mekong in Vientiane during dry season was a worse shock than seeing it in Luang Prabang...down hundreds of yards from the water line in the wet season....Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 11, 2006 10:33 PM
TrackBack | Category: Funniest Experiences, Language, Lao April 10, 2006WARNINGNever come to Northern Thailand or Lao during the dry season which is now. Slash and burn fires send smoke against the mountains and beyond. You won't see anything and...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 10, 2006 06:18 AM
TrackBack | Category: Lao, Travel Tips, Worst Experiences April 09, 2006Vang ViengBeside the Nam Song River, against stunningly beautiful limestone karst mountains that remind me of Guillin China, is the small town of Vang Vieng...a backpacker haven. Well, the mountains...Read this update Road South To Vang ViengSlash & Burn! The mountains here are obscured by the smoke from slash & burn fires as in Chiang Mai so unfortunately the sunset over the Mekong isn't as...Read this update Phousi MarketI discovered today that the Talat Dala Market that used to be up the street toward the river has moved to the outskirts of town and is now called...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 9, 2006 05:39 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Lao, Markets April 03, 2006Lao "Disco"Last night a lively 50 year old woman that teaches kindergarten in Alberta Canada, a young woman from California who is a consultant to a California educational testing company,...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 3, 2006 09:17 PM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Conversations, Dancing, Lao, Music Smile YogaI practice smile yoga... My gift to everyone. "Sabaidie," I say Not knowing their condition Hearts open Feeling Divine....Read this update Poet & Didn't Know It...as my mother would have said.): Am taking the liberty of posting Bob's April 3 email describing homecoming culture shock...very succinct. good morning; On Comcast internet--- and it's fast. What...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 3, 2006 08:11 PM
TrackBack | Category: Bob's Blogs, Oregon, USA, USA April 02, 2006Luang Prabang LaoThe last time I was here was in 2002. There are few changes and not as many tourists as I expected but then this is the off season. I'm...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on April 2, 2006 02:17 AM
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