A wise man once described Laos as “the coolest little country on this planet.” In spring 2008 Stavros Makris and myself were roaming around to find out more about the truth behind this sentence. One day in a buddist wat i met a monk, who told me this small piece of truth, you can read at the start. It is something you learn fast when you are in Laos. The pace of the country is a totally different than in western countrys. Everything seems to be way more clear and elementary. So after a couple of days in the capital we started to travel north. The aspiration: The remote hill tribes in Luang Nam Tha, based in a national park and mostly untouched by the modern life, living mainly like they lived for hundreds of years. On our way we visited the World Heritage Site Luang Pragang, watching the monks early in the morning, meeting people, visiting places.
Laos once became famous for being the most bombed country in the world, even more than neighbor Vietnam. What you find today is a really poor country, but with maybe the most open and friendly people you can meet in a beautiful surrounding.
