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...Luang Nam Tha, Laos (www.responsibletravel.com) If you feel the urge to leave the hotel poolside and hack through tropical jungle, this is for you. The UNESCO-NTA Nam Ha Ecotourism Project organizes tribal treks that have minimal impact on the environment. Stewarding a 222,400-hectare area are the residents of 25 villages, trained to manage tourism and the territory's rich ecoresources...
...country's top sights - cliff-clinging Petra, the Roman city of Jerash, sandworn desert castles and the Red Sea - you can tent down (surprisingly comfortably) with nomadic Bedouins and sleep well, knowing that 75% of the profits from the camping are channeled back to the host nation. Luang Nam Tha, Laos (responsibletravel.com) If you feel the urge to leave the hotel poolside and hack through tropical jungle, this is for you. The UNESCO-NTA Nam Ha Ecotourism Project organizes tribal treks that have minimal impact on the environment. Stewarding a 222,400-hectare area are the residents of 25 villages...
...most likely have been questioned and, after pressure was applied by foreign embassies and rights groups, released?albeit relieved of their notebooks and film. This, however, is Laos?a country that seems on the surface to be laid-back and peaceful. On the popular tourist trail between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, charming guesthouses serve fresh baguettes and coffee and offer unrestricted Internet access. Some journalists and diplomats have in the past dubbed the country's doddering apparatchiks "merry Marxists." Yet in reality, Laos has a long history of abusing human rights and ranks among Asia's most repressive states...
...made various attempts to play down, and then clamp down on, the sex and drugs that have titillated and lured the wrong kind of visitors?but to no avail. The newest approach is a mingling of high and low culture in Chiang Rai province's royally sponsored Mae Fah Luang Foundation's Hall of Opium. There is a certain brilliance to marketing the infamy of the Golden Triangle. This is one of those rare nether regions that lives up to the swashbuckling image that its name evokes. Highways crisscrossing Chiang Rai province are still frequently bottlenecked by police checkpoints...
...They appear to have succeeded, producing the most deadly assault in Laos involving foreign victims since 1997, when five people, including a French tour operator, were gunned down on the same road: Route 13, a well-traveled thoroughfare that connects Vientiane, the capital in the south, to Luang Prabang, the former capital in the north. Foreign embassies in Laos had previously issued travel warnings based on fears of bandit attacks. Recently, however, those warnings were downgraded, and Route 13 was deemed safe...