1st Laos Trips 1995

Luang Namta, with the Lanten
February 1995.
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On the Luang Namtha - Muang Sing road
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On the Chinese side of the border from Pang Hai
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Luang Namtha - Muang Sing

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Muang Sing city. What a total charming beauty it was once upon a time!

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Girlfriend recognises quite a few of the People in the photo. Some of the Old woman and some girls she went to school with. One of her brothers is in one of the photo's too. She says the woman showing her 'monkey' in the river isn't Thai (Laos Lue) apparently ....... I would tend to agree. Her head dressing is unusual. They usually have a towel on the head in a particular style notwithstanding the pubic hair ... :)

She has sent the photo's to family and I guess the Village will be reminiscing about the good Old Days and the Handsome farangs
 
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DavidFL said:
1995. Hongta Hotel, Luang Namtha.

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I stayed there for the first and only time in 1993/1994.

Remember that hotel vividly with its souvenir shop full of mainly dust to your right when you drove in. It was then already a pretty run-down dusty place.

Were there in December 1993 and condition of accommodation was hot water in the shower - for obvious reasons. Of course the water was ice cold and subsequent enquiry at the "reception" resulted in getting an elderly auntie to show up with a thermo flask of Chinese origin with - indeed - hot water. There you go - lovely Laos is always good for a surprise!

Some travel stories are made to last!
Maybe someone passing through could advise, if that place still exist; the GPS data of the place read 21.008287 101.405924. Anyhow, on the many subsequent night stops there I stayed in different places in town, the poshest "hotel sur place" was the Royal Huang Chin, phone: ‭+856 86212150 or 151, GPS: 20.998854, 101.405779 at 750 Baht; top room, everything worked and you're the only non-Chinese in the house!
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May 2002 & the first Laos adventure trip with Meow "aka Happy Go Lucky.

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Luang Prabang National Museum.
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Wat Xene.
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Nam Ngum dam.
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Patuxay
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That Luang
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November 95 Bokeo 1st night in town before heading off to China.
Scotty, Kenchan Bokeo Travel, Walter Fenske, Lloyd Two-Moons + Aussie mate John Kow-Sali Connell working in Laos with an NGO.

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HX City November 95.

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Houei Xai - Luang Nam Tha. November 95.
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Boten November 95.
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Mengla China November 95.

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The night's hotel, Mengla November 95.
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Mengla China. November 95.
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Akha Lak Kham Mai - Luang Nam Tha - Muang Sing.
November 95.
I first visited Ban Lak Kham Mai in February and took a few photographs of the villagers.
When we returned in November, I brought prints from that earlier visit. The villagers were overjoyed to receive them. Watching their reactions, I couldn't help but wonder if some of them had never before held a photograph of themselves in their own hands.

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