Colour section. Basics. The guide: Vientiane and the northwest; Louang Phabang; the northeast; the far north; south central Laos; the far south. Contexts: history; religion and belief systems; the arts; Laos's ethnic mosaic; the environment; literature and myths; books. Language: language; key to pronunciation; tones and markers; words and phrases in Lao.
Jeff Cramer has spent most of the last decade travelling and working in Southeast Asia, as a university teacher in Chang Mai and later as a journalist based in Bangkok. Steven Martin now works in Bangkok and has written news and feature stories that have been published worldwide.
NO SELF-RESPECTING TRAVELLER CAN BE WITHOUT A COPY OF THE ROUGH GUIDEThe Guardian, London
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