Lao and Malaysia Pictures

Pictures of my April trip to Lao and Malaysia are now online at www.suwala.com. Indonesia pictures still to come.

	April 2008 – Malaysia Trip (145 pictures)
	April2008-LuangPrabang (65 pictures)

Vientiane, Lao PDR

I have been in Laos for only a couple of days, and so far it is an absolutely wonderful place.

After all the confusion, noise and pollution of Bangkok (which I was in for just one night), Vientiane is a lovely change. The people are much less well off than others in the region, but that also makes for a much nicer experience for visitors.

For a sample of the first part of my trip (from packing to the first days in Vientiane), my pictures are now online.

We’re off to the northern part of Laos on Sunday (a team of 12 people are travelling on this project), which is gearing up to be wonderful.

I’m going to Laos!

As of yesterday, I was scheduled to go to Laos sometime in September for around 2 weeks. For that trip I was only going to go to Vientiane.

That all changed today; now I’m leaving on May the 6th for a month-long trip that includes traveling into some of the remote areas of Laos to gather field samples and do some training in the regions.

I’ve been to Thailand before (on my way out of Bhutan), but never to Laos. From what I’ve heard about the country, it’s supposed to be amazing.

I’m totally excited!