Plain and Simple can be Jarring
Large stone urns sit perched on a wispy hill, overlooking the calm sea of rice fields. During the war, proportionally 2 tonnes of bombs for every person were dumped Laos, much of which still lurks unexploded in the soil, awaiting the strike of a farmers hoe. Its so prevalent, that learning how to detect and avoid munitions has become part of the schools curriculum. Go USA. Way to break a treaty and kill people you weren't even fighting by making it the most bombed country on Earth.
Passing through Hell on the way to Heaven
Road construction has just begun, and won't be complete for years, but that doesn't stop locals. As long as the dynamite blasted hillside doesn't bottom out the bus and the rivers aren't deeper than the wheel wells, its drivable. Just make sure you bring chains. 120 miles in 15 hours, that's an average speed of 8mi/hr.
7.5km of Carnivorous Cave Mayhem
Tuck several days of travel away. At the foot of craggy limestone mountains, nested among the tobacco plantations, is a 7.5km cave. At times, wider than the wingspan of a Boeing 747 and taller than three times the height of Notre Dams vaulted ceilings, its big.
