The land of a million smiles
Lao is one of the most bombed countries in the history of warfare. During the Vietnam war, the North Vietnamese supply routes used to run through Laos. US warplanes used to drop their bombs all across eastern Lao. Thirty years on, the Lao people have found a new use for the bomb casings. They cut them open, fill them up with soil and grow flowers in them.
Yet another place, I found a bomb part being used as a rubbish bin.
In Lao, people always seem to be smiling. They use to call Lao the land of million elephants. I named it “the land of a million smiles.”