Khob chai lai lai (thank you) Laos!

Current Location: Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand

I originally started this blog in Laos but I just couldn’t finish it.  For some reason I couldn’t properly articulate my thoughts about the country.  You see Laos was a lot different than I expected – far more developed than I ever imagined.  In some ways even as much as Thailand just in smaller doses - I don’t think I encountered a squat toilet once, western style food is abundant and they do it quite well and the streets are really quite clean for an Asian country.  Nearly everyone tells you that Laos is about 20 years behind it’s South East Asian neighbours and while that may have been true just a few years ago, due to tourism I think they are certainly catching up quickly.  I expected something much more like Cambodia with its bad roads and evident poverty but Laos was very different to that.