It’s one thing to fall down and another to fall down in mud. But it’s a completely different story when you have an $8000 camera and lens around your neck!
The day didn’t start well.
We were in the far north of Laos and anxious to set off on a 4-day trek to remote tribal villages close to the Chinese border. The 12-hour bus ride from Luang Prabang the previous day had been interesting. Plastic bags were handed out at the beginning of the journey and it wasn’t too long before half the passengers had filled them with their previously consumed breakfast.
My partner, Andrea, gets travel-sick on straight roads at home! It wasn’t fun. The state of the road, the state of the bus and the driver’s suicidal tendency only to overtake on blind bends while answering his cell phone made a mockery of the VIP designation given to the bus. Things could only get better… or so we thought [Read more…]