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River deep, mountain high.(Ban Houei Xai)
Publication: Spectator Publication Date: 30-SEP-06 Author: Palling, Bruce
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COPYRIGHT 2006 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
My only previous visit to the Laotian border town of Ban Houei Xai was more than 30 years ago. It was a helicopter ride arranged by the American embassy in Vientiane to see a bonfire of opium which was intended to show the world that Laos was eliminating the opium crop of the Golden Triangle. The keen interest shown by my fellow journalists was less to do with the efficacy of this doomed drugeradication programme, more to do with how the opium being destroyed compared with their nightly pipes at Madame Lulu's.
Now this scruffy little place is the jumping-off point for one of the world's most magical river journeys, 200 miles downstream...
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