A couple days hiking between villages on the Laotian-Chinese hill-tribe border region, staying in the village of the Akha people.

I went with a local guide and a solo Swiss backpacker to stay overnight, eat, and drink lots of Lao-lao – strong clear spirit – as the locals gathered around us in a dimly-lit hut to drink – get drunk, and sing traditional songs (more pics & vids, later …).

This particular village had just opened to tourism and the people were very fresh to us foreigners (in 2008).