Some of you may remem­ber the Gibbon Experience from pre­vi­ous posts on the blog. The Gibbon Experience is a con­ser­va­tion project in north­west­ern Laos based on eco-tourism. Apparently the local people were hunting the gibbons to extinc­tion before a con­ser­va­tion group helped them to trans­form that life­style into sus­tain­able project. Tourists who pay for a chance [...]

I know you all enjoyed Chris’s won­der­fully enter­tain­ing post about The Gibbon Experience in Laos, but I also thought my col­lec­tion of photos might help flesh it out. I am kicking myself now because I took many photos with our point shoot and the quality/focus/exposure of them cannot compare to my 550D Canon.

We are cur­rently in Vietnam. Before coming here we were in Laos for about 11 days.  This was much longer than we planed on staying in Laos but since I got ill for 6 days we hung around Luang Prabang and then Vientiane, the capital. Sadly, besides the water­fall, in Luang Prabang and Vientiane we [...]

Hey guys, Laura and I are finally in Vietnam. As many of you already know, she started showing some symp­toms of dengue fever when we were in Luang Prabang, Laos. Our ori­ginal plan was to take a bus from there to Hanoi, in the north of Vietnam, but Dengue is not some­thing you want to [...]

Laura and I actu­ally debated whether we should spend the $500 to do the Gibbon Experience. Two-hundred and fifty bucks a piece. That’s a lot of money, and this close to the end of our trip, we’ve been very aware just how much our supply of it is dwind­ling. As far as I know, the [...]