2nd day in Savannakhet

David went to the meetings with Nick in the morning and then Nick took us out to a farm on the edge of a national forest. The owner of the farm, Duangchit is a chemist and was educated at Cambridge, but returned to Laos and bought a bunch of land to farm. People thought he was a little nuts, but it's really amazing what he's done with it.
There are cows and chickens, a mango orchard, jackfruit trees, and many other things. But what is so cool is that he left a large portion of the land untouched. So there are some really amazing hardwood trees - the kind that used to cover the land but are mostly gone now except in the national protected areas.





More pictures and explanation to come.