The images in many areas are detailed enough that you can see houses, vehicles and even people on a city street. Google Earth is free and easy-to-use. Laos on a World Wall Map: Laos is one of nearly 200 countries illustrated on our Blue Ocean Laminated Map of the World. This map ...
Laos is a tranquil landlocked country in Southeast Asia. Often overshadowed by its neighboring countries - Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia - for their more famous attractions, Laos has plenty to offer, with the benefit of fewer crowds. This small South
Burmah, and Camboja [Cambodia], with which countries their ivory, gold dust, tin, gums, lac, benzoin, raw silk, skins, and sapanwood are bartered for cotton cloth, chintzes, silks, opium, hardware, and porcelain. At present a large portion of this trade is in the hands of itinerant B...
No other data on the incidence and types of papillomavirus in circulation are available in this country. Like most lowincome countries, Laos has no national policy on cervical cancer prevention through mass HPV vaccination. An estimated 3000 women are living with HIV in Laos, of whom 1100 are ...
fields as a means of household risk diversification; should one crop fail, another can be counted on to take its place. Hmong also raise pigs and chickens in as large numbers as possible, and buffalo and cattle graze in the surrounding forest and abandoned fields with little care or ...
If you enter from the south via Thailand or across the Vietnamese or Cambodian borders, your best bet is to settle down in Pakse to explore the surrounding natural wonders. The Bolaven Plateau has an intriguing history: it’s been both a center of coffee production and a target for blanket...
Spoons and forks are used to manipulate the dishes that accompany the rice, while sticky rice may be dipped directly into condiments of chili paste and fish paste. Soup is a regular feature of meals. In the countryside, people eat chopped raw meat and foods gathered from the surrounding ...
We protect vulnerable children by adhering to our comprehensive Child Welfare Code of Conduct and seek to educate travellers about the issues surrounding such abuses. Animal welfare focus We advocate against the practice of riding on the back of an elephant as part of a tourism experience and as...
The strategy of "one belt one road" has provided an opportunity of accelerate economic growth for China's surrounding countries. Laos is actively joining the initiative, but how to cooperate with China is a difficulty. Biological symbiosis shares similar characters with cooperation and mutual ...
A Buddhist nation, Laos has a mythology surrounding Naga, a water dragon residing under the Mekong River that provides the people with food, water and fortune. Every year, the country celebrates the Boun Ok Phansa festival, where people put candles on the river in the hope that they float ...