Vientiane: Tales of the Unexpected
Trans-continental cyclist Edward Genochio navigates the pristine jungle and quaint stilted villages of Laos, ever watchful for cannonball coconuts, farmers on skateboards and Christmas pudding-shaped models of the Buddhist-Hindu universe
Twenty-seven kilometres east of Vientiane, in a garden of close-clipped lawns and pink blossoms on the quiet banks of the Mekong, you will find the Xieng Khuan Buddha Park. Asia is not short on curiosities, but this one makes my Top Ten. Here, in this idiosyncratic conception of a unified [ read more ]
