Laos Vang Vieng, Laos. 16:31pm. 3 August 2009.
The view from Vang Vieng over the Mekong River to the Karst mountains beyond was spectacular. There was just one problem; we could barely see it.
Thick, heavy, smog lay over northern Laos and this time I wasn’t rueing Mother Nature’s contrariness – it was all the work of man. The practise of slash and burn agriculture, established over generations to stimulate new growth, had
