Category Archives: Villages


Bun Tai Bulletin 12: back up

February 6, 2009 – 9:54 am

Dear All,
I’ve just got back in Bun Tai, after the Christmas break; it is very nice indeed to be back here. Christmas proved rather too memorable for my ordinary liking, with so much family illness, so being back in Laos felt rather like a break. I was delayed getting back up here, from Vientiane, as […]

By Edward Allen | Also posted in General, Laos, Living in Laos | Comments (0)

Typical Rural Lao Village

October 16, 2006 – 6:11 pm

All of our work is with villages, and so I thought I’d try and explain better what a typical Lao Village looks like:
The first thing that strikes you when you come to a Lao village is that most of the houses are on stilts, 2 or 3m off the ground. One of the tribes we […]

By Edward Allen | Also posted in Agriculture, General, Laos | Comments (0)