Luang Prabang, our home for a week in Laos, is a small city (est. pop. 16,000) long the seat of Laos kingdoms. It was designated by the UN as a world heritage site back in 1995, and so has attracted money and building/zoning regulations that have kept it a certain way and made it probably [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘mekong’
June 10, 2008
On the Mekong
Well, Vietnam’s Internet is no faster, at least so far as we’ve found, than Cambodia’s. Here’s a few notes taken on the Mekong, during a speedboat/ferry ride we shared with an Scottish expert in unexploded bombs and an American English teacher working for the Cambodia War Crimes Tribunal in Phnom Penh — that’s more evidence [...]
