Laos is a land to love. It’s an earth space that can have you feeling like you’ve stepped back in time, while simultaneously, the country is developing at a moderate pace. I don’t believe that Laos is well-known to most of the eight-billion-plus
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![The view from above the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phu in Champasak, southern Laos.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/View-From-Atop-Resized.jpg)
The ruins and grounds of Vat Phu, in Champasak, Laos, are a uniquely aesthetic and ancient Khmer Hindu site. Like many vintage earth spaces, strolling around and absorbing the open-air energy and its ancestral remnants, provides for great pondering. How different was life
![Wat Toong Shetthi on the outskirts of Khon Kaen, Thailand](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Toong-Setthi-Temple-in-Khon-Kaen.jpg)
I found to my pleasant surprise that Khon Kaen, Thailand is a city of unknown world wonders. The above Thung Sethi has been compared to the Taj Majal. It’s certainly not that, as this architectural astonishment isn’t recognized on a world scale. Only
![Room with a view at the InTouch Guesthouse, Vientiane, Laos 15 dollar room](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Room-With-View-InTouch-Guesthouse-Resized.jpg)
It was day 30. Time was up on my Lao stamp validity. The wonderful woman at the In Touch Guesthouse in Vientiane said she could get me a door-to-door drop off from the guesthouse, all the way to the customs office in Nong
![The map on the seat back in front of me on a long haul flight from JFK to HK.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Flying-Over-Alaska-Resized.jpg)
Traveling across the earth threw me for a loop. There was not a thought about being on the receiving end of extreme jet lag. When traveling across time zones, odd fatigue and not being able to sleep at night are often a given,
![The cathedral and birds at the Parque Central or Central Park, Guatemala City, Guatemala.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Parque-Central-Resized.jpg)
Because I’d read more bad than good about Guatemala City, I loosely considered skipping it. However, I’d come to realize that la capital is a terrific travel destination. Like many travelers, upon arriving, I took a shuttle straight to Antigua and got to
![A refurbished former US school bus the market in Quezaltenango, Guatemala](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bus-at-Xela-Market-Guatemala.jpg)
As the subcontinental railway is the pulse of colorful India, the refurbished former US school buses are the man-made vibration of greenery-laden Guatemala. Shortly after arriving at Guatemala City airport, I was on a 45-minute shuttle bus bound for Antigua, Guatemala. Arriving in
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The early morning Journey to Fuentes Georgina started from the Hotel Lar Antiqua beside the Parque Central. After a cool 20-minute power walk I was at La Rotonda and soon thereafter on a refurbished school bus bound for Zunil and its geothermal pools.
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Unplanned until the evening before, I found myself wandering the grounds of the ancient Mayan site of Zaculeu, in Huehuetenango. Because Guatemala’s second biggest city of Quetzaltenango hosts a huge celebration for the country’s Independence Day, I was forced out of the Lar
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Lake Atitlán is a magically wondrous body of water that Mayans have surrounded for millennia. The following anecdotes are based on the subjective and spontaneous choices I made while spending two plus weeks around naturally and culturally stunning Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. When someone