I had a very short trip to Laos in May. In Vientiane it was hot, with no sign of the wet season yet. I met with one of our research stakeholders and did my usual walk around the approximate location for 15 minutes trying to remember just exactly where the building is. I've been coming here fairly regularly (2-3 times a year) but for some reason can never remember the location well enough to direct a tuk tuk driver. By the time I turned up at the meeting I was definitely glowing!
On my wanderings I passed a new building. I'm unsure if the fancy elevated pathway between the wings is deliberate or an accident of construction?
I also checked in on the extremely narrow building going up opposite my hotel...I'm guessing it's to be another hotel. The builders are using a wheelbarrow attached to a motor to lift loads of bricks: the scary part is when the wheelbarrow gets five stories up and someone leans out to catch it and bring it in!
I took one of my favourite walks on sunset...down one of the little laneways with a restaurant I visited in February with L&R&A, a temple up ahead, a(nother) construction site on the right, and a motorbike up ahead. Very Lao!
On my wanderings I passed a new building. I'm unsure if the fancy elevated pathway between the wings is deliberate or an accident of construction?
I also checked in on the extremely narrow building going up opposite my hotel...I'm guessing it's to be another hotel. The builders are using a wheelbarrow attached to a motor to lift loads of bricks: the scary part is when the wheelbarrow gets five stories up and someone leans out to catch it and bring it in!
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| Building going up - May 2015. The wheelbarrow hod is just beneath the first floor |
It's come on a long way since February this year and the pile of bricks out the front has all but disappeared. There's a lot of hard labour that's gone into in this hotel...
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| Building in February 2015 |
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