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Category: Laos

  • Video Dump 6: Southeast Asia

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    Hello and welcome to our sixth and likely final video dump. This one covers our time in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Enjoy! First, here are two more videos of the election night celebration in Mandalay, Myanmar: Click here to watch the first video of the election night celebration Click here to…

  • Yum: Lao Cuisine

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    Claudia
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    What I loved about Lao food is the predominance of salads and appetizer-type dishes, allowing for an incredibly varied meal. Ingredients are fresh, combinations are creative, fat content is low, and we always felt satisfied and healthily full after our meals. Sticky rice is ubiquitous; it seemed no meal can be eaten without it. Food is…

  • Fashion and Hip Hop in Laos

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    We found ourselves lured into the Hive Bar in Luang Prabang by the promise of a free, nightly “ethnic fashion show” followed by a “hip hop dance show”. This could go either way, we thought, but hey we don’t really have any plans for the next few hours so let’s give it a shot. What…

  • Northern Laos in Seventeen Syllables

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    Everyone who had been there said, “Spend as much time in Laos as possible.” Unfortunately we didn’t heed their advice: partly because of geographical constraints, and partly because of some outside circumstances, we had to take one destination off our southern Laos plans, and rush through the north a bit. We still enjoyed the heck…

  • The US Secret War in Laos & the Dangers of Unexploded Ordnance

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    Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita in history. During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 200 million tons of ordnance over Laos. This small, land-locked country in Southeast Asia was hit with 580,000 bombing missions over this time period: that comes to one planeload of bombs being dropped…

  • Monkey Business: Ziplining Through the Jungle in Laos

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    Claudia
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    Our first stop in Laos was a three-day adventure in the Bolaven Plateau in the southern part of the country. After an all day bus trip from Phnom Penh (Cambodia), we crossed the border and arrived in Pakse, a sleepy riverside town in southern Laos, from where the trip would start. We spent the next…

  • Yum: Durian Fruit

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    Claudia
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    This oversized grenade of a fruit is a love/hate affair. It has a nasty reputation for smelling like trash, but durian fans are willing to overlook its scent’s peculiar similarity to dumpster air in order to enjoy the sweet, rich, custard-like meat. Our introduction to the fruit was in ice cream format in Myanmar, where…