Luang Prabang
This is the Asia we want to believe existed and are thrilled to visit. Welcome to Luang Prabang in Laos. Over 60 million people depend on the Mekong and its tributaries for food, water, transport and many aspects of their daily lives. Its annual ... [... more]
Getaway |
A. Kamala Dalal
Welcome to Laos, the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Discover this landlocked country with its thickly forested landscape and rugged mountains. Learn of France and America's part in the long civil war which ended in 1975. Trace Laos' natural ... [... more]
Random House |
What's God Got to Do with It?
Tim Page's photographic career began in Laos, where at the age of eighteen he covered the civil war for UPI. He photographed the war in Vietnam for the Associated Press, UPI, and Paris Match. He was wounded four times, the final time almost ... [... more]
Random House |
Joseph T. Ward
The letters Joseph War, one of the elite Marine Scout Snipers, wrote home reveal a side of the Vietnam war seldom seen. Whether under nigthly mortar attack in An Hoa, with a Marine company in the bullet-scarred jungle, on secret missions to Laos, ... [... more]
Random House |
Roger Warner
THE CIA IN ITS GLORY DAYS and the mad confidence that led to disaster in Vietnam are the subjects of Roger Warner's prizewinning history, Shooting at the Moon: The CIA's War in Laos (first published as Back Fire, Simon & Schuster, 1995). For a ... [... more]
Random House |
Day 2 - Ireland's First International Garden Festival
Ireland's first international garden festival is an exciting and inspiring showcase for contemporary garden design. It is being held from 29th June to 23rd September 2007 at Emo Court, Co. Laos and will feature 15 very different gardens, which ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
