Sao Lao

I had a chance to spend a day in Vang Vieng. My mother wanted to see her old work place when she was a teenager. She used to work at Vang Vieng Hospital as a nurse. She also wanted to see the places she used to hang out. We went to see my Grandmother’s old house as well. As a wife of a soldier my Grandmother had houses all over Laos. When her husband was stationed in Vang Vieng, she had to move there for many years. I wonder how my mother felt when she saw the old house. She said the toilet is the same one that they built. Like most Lao parents that came to the US, they kept so many secrets with so much sorrows in their hearts. I can only look at my mother’s face and try to read her mind.

To sum the day, it was a nice drive to Vang Vieng and we had a nice lunch and took a detour to see farangs jumping into the river. It was a pity that we didn’t have more free time to stay a few days to check out the scenery. But then again, there were too many tourists and I didn’t feel like I was in Laos at all but just one of the invaders of the town.

One Response to “A Day in Vang Vieng”

1. Sao Lao » Blog Archive » Going to Banh Kern Says:
   August 8th, 2007 at 4:24 pm

   [...] enough with the rambling. The last time I was talking about the visit to Vang Vieng. On our way back from Vang Vieng, we took a different route and had to cross a river which I [...]

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