For the past two weeks, I have been traveling through the mountains of northern Laos. It was a fantastic trip, and I hope I can write about some of my experiences here this week. I spent most of my time in the small towns in Xieng Khuang and Hua Phan provinces, in northeast Laos, near the borders with China and Vietnam.
This part of Laos is very mountainous and very sparsely populated, mostly by various ethnic hilltribe communities and villages. It was also the headquarters of the communist Pratet Lao group (which now controls the country), against whom the US was waging a secret war in the 1960s and 1970s. More bombs were dropped on Laos during this time than in all of Europe during WWII.
I took lots of pictures of course, and have uploaded some of them to my Facebook page. It turns out it was much easier to do it there than to do it here, so feel free to drop by and take a look. Even if you are not a member of Facebook, you can still see my photos from Laos here.
