Full Moon Cafe now offers a Boom Boom Room service. Started by a bloke called Simon in Phnom Penh and spread to other parts of Cambodia, is a clever way of capitalising on the lack of copyright laws and enforcement. The model is this: over dinner, you choose from a bound catalog of thousands of

A new installation to Vientiane’s streets. Along with the new foot paths, sealed main road (well one of them anyway) and underground drains, are modern garbage trucks as can be seen in use around the Patuxay (Arc de Triomphe copy).

 

There are even orange wheely bins to match! Sure they aren’t

Yep, that’s me messing around with thousand-year-old archeological artifacts.

 

The town of Phonsavan is isolated. It nearly has two main streets, fully equipped with buffaloes strolling down it. A fresh market, a bus stop, two shops trying to  pass as falang restaurants. It’s best described as a