A few pics
Here are some pics from ages ago:
A pub crawl Laos style. Vang Viang.
Jungle clad karst mountains in Laos.
On one of my jungle expeditions. Pretty steep.
You have to protect your shrines from the powerful sun. These things are evrerywhere in Laos.
Floating down the river on an inner tube.
This is one of the swings - pretty big.
I got lashed in this lovely riverside bar.
From Luang Prabang to Pakbeng. Mekong river cruise. This is a typical Mekong village. I’m sure I can see a pub.
Looking down a Mekong valley. Gorgeous.
Another village. Class.
This internet cafe looks like the dog’s bollicks eh?
After further investigation I found it WAS the dog’s bollicks.
NHS cuts.
Nice spot to dry your clothes. A house with a cliff for a garden.
The spiciest food in the World - ever. The chopsticks are starting to melt. This is Som Tam or Papaya salad. It can be used to power space shuttles as a cheaper alternative to rocket fuel.
Some cargo boats berthed on the Mekong at Pakbeng. See the Laos flag?
The suburbs of Pakbeng. Quite noisy when its raining.
Idyllic Pakbeng in the middle of nowhere, Laos.
Do you need a slow baot? For 0900, read 1000-1200! Asia time!
The Laos-Thai border. Back to civilisation. ATMs, cafes, shops, electricity, roads etc etc.
Look at the difference between this small Thai town and Laos. It is like travelling through time.
A view from my balcony in Mae Hong Son, NW Thailand.
Into Burma. My friend Rene from Bali with Alex our trekking guide from Kalaw to Inle Lake.
An old woman in one of the villages we passed through.
What time is it? Bath time by the look of things.
A bunch of canny bairns.
My 5-star accommodation for a couple of nights - loving it.
Preparing the fields for rice planting. No tractors here. No cars, motorbikes, roads or electricity either - wonderful!
Cruising down the Ayerwaddy river from Mandalay to Bagan. Can you see the golden stupas? They are everywhere in Burma.
A young lad wearing the thanaka paste on his face on this packed boat.
The kitchen is at the end but how to get there?
A welcoming committee at one of dozens of stops.
Using cattle to bring goods from the village to the boat for further transportation. These loading/unloading operations take quite a while. It’s best not to be in a rush!
The boat kitchen.
Unloading a motorbike style tractor. Where are the dockyard cranes I here you ask? This is Asia’s 3rd biggest port after Shanghai and Singapore.
The Pakkoku ferry terminal.
Bagan - breathtaking.
More Bagan.
Bagan.
Bagan again.
With a young friend who has thanaka paste smeared all over his boatrace!
Lovely little lasses hawking George Orwell’s Burma Days book. Aren’t those smiles wonderful?
In traditional garb. Burma rocks man. I loved it there.
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