Photos Exploring Northern Laos

Photo tour of the sheer rock cliffs, lazy rivers, and green rice paddies that make up Northern Laos.

 

First beer in Laos!

 

In case you don't want to drive your motorcycle, you can put it on a bus.

 

Lina doing the local version of the electric slide at an Akha tribe wedding outside of Muang Sing

 

dancing at an Akha tribe wedding outside of Muang Sing

 

The dance floor cleared as a young man brings another crate of Beer Lao

 

and Lina got them all to jump… well almost.

 

ambushed!

 

these shacks are where field workers take breaks during the long days of the wet season

 

a local tribe headdress

 

looks like the Chinese border (~8km away) hasn't opened yet. This road was swamped with trucks going to China full of wood and coming back empty.

 

 

crossing the bamboo bridge

 

sunset over the outskirts of Nong Khiaw

 

insane greens across the wet rice paddies

 

just a little tight in here… plenty of headroom though

 

Does this look make you want to buy the squirrels?

 

 

behold… a beach on a river--with crazy hills all around

 

and as the powerlines went up--some say things will never be the same

 

a newly built road leads back to town

 

river sunset

 

supposedly the guy who now owns this leopard-like cat, bought it from a Hmong trader that already sold this cats dead mother

 

guarding the water

 

a shrine looking very curious

More Northern Laos

For tips on backpacking Northern Laos, read about how we spent one week in the North part of Laos.

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