Laos is well and truly entrenched on the south-east Asian backpacker trail. There are numerous routes linking it with Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. You can
For this month’s South-East Asia adventure we catch up with Benjamin Blech and his girlfriend Nang, the pair of them tackling the road from Luang Prabang to Phonsavan in North Central Laos.
It was one fateful day in Luang Prabang, during a three-month tour of South-East Asia, twenty-four hours after my friend and I had decided to cross one of the remotest parts of the country on two beat-up old Suzuki’s that first brought us together…
‘You’re crazy’ she said, standing with perfect elegance under a bright red umbrella, her dark vivacious eyes smiling back at me in the scorching April heat. ‘I know – but I’ll be back, and next time we’ll do it together’, I promised, as the engine spluttered to life.