Heading for the Mekong's upper reaches on a boutique boat to discover unspoiled Laos
Small, old colonial-style Sabaidee Pandaw is one of only a handful of boutique boats on the Upper Mekong, which makes every passenger feel like a true pioneer.
Laos
Laos’ mysterious Plain of Jars that has stone jars across the burial ground may be 3,000 years old
Laos’ eerie ‘Plain of Jars’ may be thousands of years older than previously suspected, and in use for a much longer period of time. Limestone vessels dotting the landscape in northern Laos were place there up to 3,300 years ago, according to analysis of quartz crystals in the sediment underneath them. But most of the … Read more
Visiting Laos: It hasn’t had one Covid death and has an uplifting ancient capital
Shopkeeper Kalina has just brewed tea and offers me a cup. I have stopped to buy water from her village store in Ban Chan, near Luang Prabang in northern Laos. It’s her home, too, built at ‘pig height’ off the ground to stop the animals wandering in, and is also reassuringly surrounded by a border … Read more