Laos is slowly waking up from its deep slumber ...


Around half the size of Spain, this small country of 5 million people was closed to tourism for a long time, due as much to its broken relief and lack of infrastructure as to its swing to a communist regime in 1975.


The « land of a million elephants » has always been an isolated territory, in spite of its location at the heart of the Indochina peninsular, in South East Asia and at the crossroads of the great cultures of this part of the world.
Its powerful neighbours (China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam) cut it off from any maritime outlet.


This isolation has enabled a large number of ethnic minorities to preserve to this present day their original traditions.