STYLISH AND SOMNOLENT, LUANG PRABANG IS A GO-SLOW HAVEN BESIEGED BY RIVERS.
ONCE ROYAL, STILL A COLONIAL DIVA AND REVERED BY THE NOMADIC TRIBE AND TRENDY
DRIFTERS FOR ITS BUDDHA BAR VIBE, MEKONG EVANGELISTS AND TAX FREE WINES,
ASIA'S SEXIEST CITY DOES NOT TRY TO IMPRESS ANYONE, AND SO IMPRESSES EVERYONE
OH, WHAT A DELIGHTFUL PARADISE
OF IDLENESS THIS COUNTRY PROTECTS,
BY THE FIERCE BARRIER OF THE STREAM,
AGAINST PROGRESS AND AMBITION FOR
WHICH IT HAS NO NEED. WILL LUANG
PRABANG BE, IN OUR CENTURY OF EXACT
SCIENCES, OF QUICK PROFITS, OF VICTORY
BY MONEY, THE REFUGE OF THE LAST DREAMERS,
THE LAST LOVERS, THE LAST TROUBADOURS ?
MARTHE BASSENE - 1909
IT’S HARD TO RESIST THE STUNNING BEAUTY OF THE UPPER MEKONG.
BEJEWELED BY RUINS OF ANCIENT BUDDHIST KINGDOMS AND CONSIDERED
AS ONE OF THE MOST ADVENTUROUS WATERWAYS OF THE WORLD,
THE MIGHTY RIVER RUNS THROUGH SIX COUNTRIES AND IMPREGNATES
THE THOUSAND YEAR OLD WORLD HERITAGE CITY OF LUANG PRABANG.
SOMNOLENT AND HOLYISH.
