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The most bombed city of History

Each 8 minutes a bomb fell in Lao. so during 9 years. They released 270 cluster bombs million, two tons of ammunition for each Laotian. And Laos was not even in war. Between 1964 and 1973, United States dropped more bombs on Laos than in all of World War II.

byDaniel Landa

25 May, 2015

Men who eat dogs and frogs fear

There are as few animals in the jungles of Vietnam as there are in Laos. The people, as Juan told us, they eat it all. With the feeling of heading to a somewhat looted place, we enter the roads of northern Laos.

byDaniel Landa

11 May, 2015

The procession of the beggar monks of Luamprabang

Suddenly, when dawn was already creeping in the day, between the dark and the light, a long line of monks appeared carrying their orange robes as if the cloth were coming from their shoulders, in an absolute lack of noise in which only the footsteps were heard, breathing and the twinkling of their baskets. I found it a beautiful image, serena.

byJavier Brandoli

27 February, 2015

Asia

Roads against setback

This could be the reading of a day where the unexpected became my best travel companion, a skid that tones, rebalances and makes us reconsider our place within the grand scheme of things.

byvap

26 March, 2014

Blessed is this car

One of the unconfessed pleasures of tourists in Asia come to our temples, called Wat,…

byContributors

7 June, 2010

The odyssey to train with Olympic athletes

I am in Vientiane, the capital of Laos (as you all know). Yesterday they gave me the deck in all…

byContributors

28 May, 2010

Laosadas

What did I know about Laos before coming to know? A ver, pulling my broad culture: Knew…

byContributors

20 May, 2010

The price of crossing the border on Sunday and lunchtime

We reached the border at two p.m.. And it's Sunday. Impact: Lao officials have been very angry, and we have informed: "By coming on a Sunday lunchtime, have to pay a dollar more ".

byContributors

12 May, 2010

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