Down the Nam Ou to Luang Pra Bang
Trip Start
Mar 03, 2008
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Trip End
Apr 01, 2008
Nong Khiaw, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Friday, March 28, 2008
Hour after lazy hour the brutal winter sun beats on us as the scene moves by us. We stop only to let villagers on or off and an occasional pee stop.
I watch fishermen throwing their nets to catch small fish. Several villages have constructed elaborate bamboo platforms to place microhydro generators into the strong current to generate electricity for the village. In Vietnam at the Hanoi University of Technology students have designed and marketed similar units, but the units made in China are cheaper ($100) and outsell the superior Vietnamese units. I later see these units for sale in a LPB hardware store.
