Return to Lao: The Villages Part One
After the excellent banana pancakes, our guide, Vue Lee arrived with the minibus and driver. As we began the drive, the day was cool and hazy. It looked to be a good day for photos and wandering. We drove for a good bit, maybe an hour before we passed through the first village, Kokran, a Lao village. We walked around briefly. This is one of the busy seasons for growing rice. It is harvest time, so most of the villages we were to see were quiet. Only the children too small to work, the women who were needed to watch them and those too old to work remained for the most part in the villages. The first few villages were along a medium size river and the surrounding areas were covered in dense foliage. Have I asked just what makes a jungle before? According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, a jungle is: 1 a : an impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of tropical vegetation b : a tract overgrown with thickets or masses of vegetation So I guess I can say these villages were m
