Blogs in February 2020

The sound of the buffalo bells: Stories from Laos 22nd February 2020

Amongst temples and banks, rice fields and jungles the reader meets forest-eaters and world-travelling buffaloes, a frog who wants to swallow the moon, a man who sells luck and another who sells air, and a young boy who wants...

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Mystical Laotian Flower 22nd February 2020

A plant exists that could change mankind’s evolution, and the key to it resides with an exotic woman in Laos… When Spencer and Candice Harrington, two research doctors, travel to Laos on a sabbatical, they meet a beautiful and...

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Leaving Laos 22nd February 2020

Through the ups and downs of life, whom do you count on the most? Twelve-year-old Blong does not have much, but he has his older sister Ka-Ying. Now, their world is suddenly and forever changed. Homes are abandoned. People...

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Eye of the Tempest 22nd February 2020

Lloyd D. Oppel. Samuel A. Mattix. Twenty years old. Neophyte missionaries to Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. The Vietnam War has slopped over into Laos and is taking a horrific toll. Lloyd and Sam are taken prisoners...

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Lost in Laos 22nd February 2020

Global traveller Lydia Laube had out her map again. Where could she go next? Her eye fell on one place she hadn’t visited – Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. After enduring a close call with Thai immigration...

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