Routine

If asked "What do you DO when you travel?" my honest response would have to be that I walk, and I eat.

Muang Ngoi is an ideal place to walk. Within 200 meters in any direction, the small town quickly gives way to the Lao countryside. Steep mountains blanketed with jungle, flat valleys of rice fields and all bisected by the Nam Ou, make up the terrain.

I was blessed with the promise of a cool (for Laos), misty morning, and kilometers to walk before I slept.

I set out for several outlying villages and caves, as the morning mists and accompanying humidity played tricks on the senses, with alternating sensations of chill and mugginess.