Highlights
Highlights after 3 weeks in Laos and almost 2 weeks in Cambodia..
LAOS
1. Learning that rain really hurts at 100 km/hr and that if you have no visor for your motorbike helmet it is impossible to drive more than 20 km/hr..especially at 12am.
2. Trecking into an 'unseen" village completly encirciled by karst mountains with the only entry a 30 min walk through a cave then a 2.5 hour walk through a forrest.
Over the river on a bammboo bridge..
3. Floating down a river in a rubber tube for 5 hours with a beer in hand..
Yep, Vang Vien
Other highlights:
- Visiting the organic farm in Laos and having the farmer offer to let me build a bungalow on his property under the stunning mountains and next to the river for $2500 that i can use any time I want (you can too!)
- Vientiane (Capital of Laos) with the usual Asian chaos but charming and sleepy
- My first meetings with a communist governement - argh! The paperwork!
CAMBODIA
1. Hiking 1.5 hours then ox carting it for 2.5 hours into 3 villages then oxcarting it back for 4 hours.
2. Visiting the Floating village where everyone lives on a house boat - even the local mechanic and the petrol station, temple and department for environment.
It's been fun times meeting over 20 NGOs, tour companies, govt agencies and visiting projects..
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Here in Kampong Spoe and Takeo in Southern Cambodia they were having droughts while i was there. Now (August 26th) they are having floods and landslides..
LAOS
1. Learning that rain really hurts at 100 km/hr and that if you have no visor for your motorbike helmet it is impossible to drive more than 20 km/hr..especially at 12am.
2. Trecking into an 'unseen" village completly encirciled by karst mountains with the only entry a 30 min walk through a cave then a 2.5 hour walk through a forrest.
Over the river on a bammboo bridge..
3. Floating down a river in a rubber tube for 5 hours with a beer in hand..
Yep, Vang Vien
Other highlights:
- Visiting the organic farm in Laos and having the farmer offer to let me build a bungalow on his property under the stunning mountains and next to the river for $2500 that i can use any time I want (you can too!)
- Vientiane (Capital of Laos) with the usual Asian chaos but charming and sleepy
- My first meetings with a communist governement - argh! The paperwork!
CAMBODIA
1. Hiking 1.5 hours then ox carting it for 2.5 hours into 3 villages then oxcarting it back for 4 hours.
2. Visiting the Floating village where everyone lives on a house boat - even the local mechanic and the petrol station, temple and department for environment.
It's been fun times meeting over 20 NGOs, tour companies, govt agencies and visiting projects..
eHere in Kampong Spoe and Takeo in Southern Cambodia they were having droughts while i was there. Now (August 26th) they are having floods and landslides..
2 Comments:
At 5:48 AM, Kyle said…
Hang on there a sec?
Floating down a river with beer in hand? That sounds like Vang Vieng!!!
I love that place!!! Some of by best time in Loa was spent in that tiny town... floating down a river in a tyre!!!
And bars that pull you in - litterally !
You can't go past that place. And apparently many people don't. I talked to heaps of people who just got stuck there passing the days away at a lazy bar by the river.
Kyle
At 9:39 AM, Ben said…
Dave, I was just talking to Weaw and she said you'll see her soon... I have some exciting news for you and would like to share ASAP, but don't have your email address... mine is the same as before... be safe, have fun, talk to you soon!
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