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• Weave your own path through the temple-lined straats of World Heritage-listed Luang Prabang
• Find out why Katang villagers sleep with their heads pointed towards an outside wall
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• Join locals for a riverside Beerlao as the sun sets over the Mekong in Vientiane
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This concise, up-dated edition of the award winning A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia is the most comprehensive compact guide to this magnificent bird-rich region.

• Over 140 full-colour plates by a range of expert artists covering major plumage variations
• All 1.270 species covered in detail
• Up-to-date text covers the identification, voice, habitat, behaviour and range of all the species and distinctive subspecies of the region
• A complete field and reference guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Also covers a wide range of species found in the Indian subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and the Philippines

This book gives an intimate glimpse into the day-to-day lives of the monks, novices and nuns at Wat Sok Pa Laung. Who are these boys, men and woman and why did they become a novice or why did they ordain? Although the focus is on the mundane, the significance of Buddhism in their lives shine through.

The temple complex Wat Sok Pa Laug is blanketed in a peaceful and contemplative atmosphere. The rustle of leaves in trees and bushes, the sound of the sweeping rhythm of the broom and daily chants nestle down over the whole terrain. But within this serene world other layers are revealed: desires for love and sport, family problems, malaria, poverty and education perils. At the Buddhist high school for example, they share the classroom with seventy other novice. The school has far too many students and on one occasion the floor of a classroom came down.But the students have no choice. Most of them became a novice because their parents had no money foreducation. Laos is a country which until recently was largely isolated from the rest of the world, its economy is small-scale and predominantly agricultural.

Despite the extremely sober life style, as documented in this book, the stories of the novices and monks are often heart-warming.

Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air.
The Ravens were the pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify targets and call in air-strikes. Their mission was so secret that they were "sold' their prop-driven planes for a dollar apiece so they could be struck from US Air Force records. They wore no uniform and carried no identification. Refugees from the bureaucracy of the war in Vietnam, they accepted the murderous casualty rates of what was known as the Steve Canyon Program in return for a life of unrestricted flying and fighting.
Devoted to the hill tribesmen they fought alongside, the Ravens did their job with extraordinary skill and crazy courage and with a humour that was all of its own.
This is the story, brilliantly told for the first time by Christopher Robbins, of these extraordinary men. Based on extensive interviews with the survivors, it is a tale of undeniable heroism, blending real-life romance, adventure and tragedy.

The small nation of Laos, wedged between Thailand and Vietnam, is little known to most Westerners. When the author and her husband, a USAID worker, moved to Laos in 1971, it was a quiet country falling increasingly under the effects of a heavy but unacknowledged U.S. military presence as part of a failing effort in Vietnam.
Befriended by two young Laotians, the author became a part of village life, joining holiday celebrations, weddings, funerals and feasts. Over a four year period, she developed a deep admiration and affection for the Lao people. The humor and pathos of these chaotic years before the Communist take-over of the government in 1975 are chronicled by following one Lao family from Communist controlled re-education camps to their eventual resettlement in the United States.

Laos en Cambodja, twee landen op de drempel van de toekomst. Hoewel ze aan elkaar grenzen en vaak in één adem worden genoemd, zijn de verschillen tussen beide landen opmerkelijk. Het landschap, de sfeer, de taal, de mensen, het eten, en zelfs het boeddhisme zijn in Laos en Cambodja heel verschillend.
Er zijn natuurlijk ook overeenkomsten. Beide landen staan vermeld op Unesco's lijst van Werelderfgoederen. Laos met Luang Prabang, een juweel aan de Mekong met tientallen historische tempels. Cambodja met Angkor, een van de mooiste tempelcomplexen ooit gebouwd. Na jaren van isolement, staan Laos en Cambodja nu open voor iedereen die de tijd neemt en zich niet te veel stoort aan lekkende hotels en hobbelige wegen.