Laos Musings

Well, these have been brewing for a while but it has been difficult through China to be able to connect to Blogger.  Now here we are in Lovely Laos and sitting waiting for a bus to take us on to Vietnam (we have skipped off again for a couple of  days so that we get more time in Hue and are taking a twenty eight hour trip on the sleeper bus so that we arrivewith time to see the sights...) so it seemed like a good opportunity to do some musing.

Technology
It's everywhere.  Just like in Europe mobile phones are everywhere and people are using them at every opportunity they get in all of the places we have travelled through.  No rules here about driving and using your mobile - everyone does it - lorry drivers overtaking on unmadeup roads, everyone in tuk tuks and even on your motorbike or scooter.

Then, off course, just walking along the road is the best time touse them.  One evening in China our way to the restaurant was lit by all the young people with their phones on. On the elephant trek through the forest the mahout had his mobile out for most of the route.

But my best one was the Monk on a Mobile in Mongolia!

Alongside the mobile phones are all the satellite dishes outside houses.  Most of these places don't have running water or toilets but they all have a dish to allow them to watch television.  Drivng through Laos all of the villages perched on the edge of the mountain roads have their dishes outside:

Even when we stayed at the gers in Mongolia the family had a tv in their ger and the man who came out with the horses watched films in his ger in between rides.

More musings when there is a bit more time.  Off for a shower  now before our epic bus ride.

TTFN

Jx