Well put, it´ll take "Lonely Planetized" as mine though you have all your
credits, I could not say it better, and Luang Prabang is a good example,
Vang Vien also, I happened some years then I don´t want to think of now.
"Mike Newman" escribió en el mensaje
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> Roscoe wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately this article comes about 3 to 4 years to late. Luang
> > Prabang has already turned into a street prostitution ridden, traveller
> > infested town.Still better than most of Thailand, but people I know and
> > trust who loved it in the late Nineties and returned there a year ago
> > will not come back again.
> >
> > Apparently the writer thinks otherwise, so your mileage may vary.
>
> Unfortunately there are an awful lot of travelers who think a place is
> not worth visiting until it has an internet cafe, smoothies and banana
> pancakes. And, again unfrortunately, the world is full of entrepeneurs
> ready to please them.
>
> I'm glad I made it to a few of these places before they got Lonely
> Planetized.
>
> I wonder if my kid will have a last best place to go to.
>
> --
> Mike Newman
> Saipan and Narita Layover Pages:
> http://net.saipan.com/personal/mike_newman/
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