Northern Laos is very mountainous, there are different types of mountains of different eras. Laos is still being a predominantly rural country, it is not uncommon to find small villages at the top of the mountain, completely isolated since it nya no roads and no electricity. We came across one in the photo right after a trek of 7 hours! We meet a resident of this village who s preparing to go down (so that we had to climb in 7 hours!) The village at the bottom connected by a road to resupply. No cars here to go to Auchan!
Rice is the main crop so we see rice fields everywhere from north to south, from east to west, everywhere.
lot less pretty and very devastating to the flora and fauna of Laos, the Laotian practicing shifting cultivation, ie they burn large areas of forest in order to make land fertile (which actually works but only short-term, long term instead this technique greatly impoverishes the soil) and replace them with crops generally hevea or teak, crops that can earn as much money Teak is then sold and exported for manufacture of furniture in exotic woods and used to manufacture the Hevea rubber (thanks to its sap).
The Mekong is the longest river in Asia, it is also a great resource for South East Asia (fisheries, hydropower, irrigation, etc.) He also serves as a particular boundary between Laos and Thailand. In colonial times the French settled mainly along the Mekong River in Laos, in fact they used this river as the main communication axis roads does not exist yet (to give you an idea, the main roads that exist al Currently have barely a dozen years).
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