There was a point on this trip when my Financial and Menu Adviser and I checked our bank accounts and discovered we had about twenty United States dollars between us.
We looked at each other, and for just a moment, there was silence. That was a pretty strange thing, for starters. There are plenty of comfortable silences between us, but anybody who knows either of us also knows that we could both talk both balls off an elephant.
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I’ve been fascinated with tigers since I was a kid. On the many trips to the zoo I forced my dad to take me on, one of my favorite animals was watching Prince Charles. A white Siberian tiger, he always looked a bit regal and out of place in his enclosure, a living black-and-white photo, his massive head held up as he paced through all the faded yellow rock and brown trees that surrounded him.
That wide-eyed five-year-old that I was never would’ve imagined that actually touching a live tiger would be a possibility. It seemed more likely that I could be a tiger than touch one.
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Starting at Siem Reap and ending in a town whose name rhymes with “toilet,” arguably the worst road in Southeast Asia stretches for a mere 155 km. The name is deceptive. Called the Cambodian National Highway, CNH 5 and CNH 6 were nothing more than a potholed dirt track that occasionally had delusions of paving.
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The temples of Angkor Wat have left tourists, travellers and adventurers slack-jawed and scrabbling for better adjectives to describe them since at least the middle of the 19th century, when they were visited for the first time since the fall of the Khmer empire in the 1600s.
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Recommending restaurants and accomodation in Laos is a bit silly, since everything is so cheap and it’s really quite hard to go wrong. Nevertheless, here’s some information to help give a bit of focus to “The Jewel of the Mekong.”
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The first time I was in Vientiane, things ended badly. Well, they ended just fine, in the sense that I’m healthy, whole and functionaling as normally as ever. But I just didn’t get to enjoy Vientiane much.
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When travelling in a country surrounded by people who unhurriedly go about their business, Luang Prabang is clearly the place to let it all unwind.
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