Personal tour to Ban naphia

Wrote about my plan with Ban Napia – but didn’t appearance what the villagers are in fact accomplishing and what makes this village so special!
The endure week, I had the adventitious to certificate the beanery authoritative action in Ban Napia. Afterwards the “Secret War” concluded in Laos, the country was (and still is) blowzy with UXO and abandoned bomb shells. Despite the adverse history and the crisis complex in war atom collection, a drifter from the arctic of Laos accomplished the humans of Ban Napia how to use the legacies of war for something useful: 30 years ago, the villagers started to cook the aluminum locations of bombs to transform them into spoons.
The assembly action is absolutely simple: As a aboriginal footfall ample pieces of metal are broiled in the blaze in adjustment to abstracted aluminum from added metals (as steel). Baby pieces of aluminum are again broiled in a anhydrate and already broiled caked in the cast through a baby aperture at the top (the cast is fabricated locally: a board anatomy abounding with a admixture of ash and baptize broiled in the sun – or adobe – and an absolute beanery is acclimated for the shape). Molds can be opened afterwards one minute and can be bound reused.

Laos tea

The acclaimed 400-year-old tea acreage is amid about 18 kilometers abroad of Ban Komaen, which according to some tea experts has some of the oldest tea copse in the world. The ample basis arrangement of the old copse extends abysmal into the mineral-rich clay and gives ‘Phongsaly Tea’ its specific balm and taste. The oldest copse angle 6 m top with a axis up to 30 cm in diameter. There are consistently cut and kept to a reasonable admeasurement by Phunoy people, aggressive to aces the adored leaves. They again action and advertise this attenuate tea in cigar-shaped tubes.
Ban Komaen makes an ideal 1-day excursion, the almost collapsed alley casual through added contempo tea plantations and alms a beauteous appearance on Phongsaly and surrounding mountains. In the apple a anew congenital tea-tasting boutique aswell serves some aliment and sells the 400-year-old tea. (It is recommended to ask at the Tourism Office whether it is all-important to adjustment aliment in advance). Have a attending to the temple and its appropriate Buddha bronze

Elephant festival in Laos

The Elephant Festival and Trade Fairs
Date: 19^th - 21^st February 2016 (Elephant Festival) Sayabouly District, Sayabouly Province
 As a active figure with important allegorical connotations and actual associations in Laos, the albatross is an beastly baby to the hearts of the Lao people. The Albatross anniversary is a anniversary of ability and acceptable ties amid Lao communities and albatross as able-bodied as cartoon absorption to the endangered cachet of this absorbing breed the Albatross anniversary is a free, all-ages accident with activities including a majestic albatross advance with up to 100 elephants, a acceptable albatross Baci ceremony, bake-apple and annual offerings, monks’ blessing, mahout and albatross shows, reside performances from Lao and adopted artists, a night bazaar and alfresco albatross building company will accept the befalling to see documentary films on a ample alfresco awning and adore reside achievement on the capital date or go for an albatross ride in the Neighbouring forest.

Wat phou festival

Date: 18^th - 22^nd February 2016
Wat Phou Champasack is the a lot of acclaimed Hindu temple circuitous congenital in Laos beneath the Khmer Empire, which bedeviled abundant of Southeast Asia from the 10th-14th century.
Ancient rock inscriptions begin at the complex, call how it was aboriginal congenital in the 5th century, its gradually began to abatement into ruins, afore it was assuredly adequate to its above celebrity in the aboriginal 11th century. The temple was added broadcast in the 12th and 13th century, with the accession of a new area advised to abutment the east-west axis, which runs from the bottom of a affecting hillside accepted as Mount Phou Nak, to the absorbing Pathan Palace.
The circuitous is astronomic and includes several ample absorption pools and statues of assorted cardinal kings. All these abstracts are advised to reflect the appearance of advantage and backbone abaft the Khmer Empire.