Day at the Spa

I spent a week in the far north of Laos on foot, high in the mountains overlooking the Nam On River.  It is as one would expect it to have been in South East Asia long before modernization; rural, real, and rustic.  Village life in Laos is truly remarkable, a circle, drops reflected in the pools left from the downpour. The rains had exploded through before I made tracks across the rice patties, and as it had centuries upon centuries before I lay foot there, life continued as it always had…by choice.