Laos Travel Guide

A Buddha statue graces a cave near Luang Prabang, Laos

Laos is a land of soft light and long twilights; brown churning rivers and shy children; crumbling ornate French mansions and rough bamboo huts; water buffalo and opium.

It is a place where deft hands work giant wooden looms at silk markets and hundreds of bicycles ride past gilded temples dodging ambling orange monks holding shiny black umbrellas.