Before I left for Laos, I received a lot of travel advice from friends and fellow travellers who had already visited the country. Besides...

It’s nice once in a while to have some familiarity in the midst of all the transience of travel. It’s nice to walk up to a fruit shake...

I arrived in Laos a week ago not knowing what to expect. I’d been given a list of names of places to see by people who had been here...