{"id":5012,"date":"2012-06-03T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/litosasturias.com\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:32:26","slug":"laos-muang-kua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/laos-muang-kua\/","title":{"rendered":"Laos &#8211; Muang Kua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Muang Kua era un peque\u00f1o pueblo, levantado en medio de la jungla, al costado de un r\u00edo. En \u00e9l pasamos unos d\u00edas mientras decid\u00edamos qu\u00e9 ruta seguir. Durante ese tiempo pude percatarme del pausado ritmo de la vida en Laos, debido a que era un pa\u00eds que apenas contaba con seis millones de habitantes y una escasa influencia extranjera. Los nativos de la regi\u00f3n, rodeados de f\u00e9rtiles tierras y escarpadas monta\u00f1as, viv\u00edan de la agricultura. La llamada tierra del mill\u00f3n de elefantes conservaba su naturaleza casi intacta. Su gente viv\u00eda en una marcha lenta, los d\u00edas parec\u00edan detenerse, todo se desarrollaba sin prisa. Se respiraba una atm\u00f3sfera tranquila.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kb-gallery-type-grid.kb-gallery-id-_e7ba0d-bd{margin:-7px;}.kb-gallery-type-grid.kb-gallery-id-_e7ba0d-bd .kadence-blocks-gallery-item{padding:7px;}.kb-gallery-id-_e7ba0d-bd .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-_e7ba0d-bd .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_e7ba0d-bd alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-grid kb-gallery-id-_e7ba0d-bd kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none kb-gallery-magnific-init\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"4\" data-columns-xl=\"4\" data-columns-md=\"4\" data-columns-sm=\"3\" data-columns-xs=\"2\" data-columns-ss=\"2\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua5.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"  ><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land32 kb-has-image-ratio-land32\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua5.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua5.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua5.jpg\" data-id=\"5013\" class=\"wp-image-5013 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/188;\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua6.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"  ><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land32 kb-has-image-ratio-land32\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua6.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua6.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua6.jpg\" data-id=\"5014\" class=\"wp-image-5014 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/188;\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua3.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"  ><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land32 kb-has-image-ratio-land32\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua3.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua3.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua3.jpg\" data-id=\"5015\" class=\"wp-image-5015 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/188;\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua4.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"  ><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land32 kb-has-image-ratio-land32\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua4.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua4.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua4.jpg\" data-id=\"5016\" class=\"wp-image-5016 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 188px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 188\/250;\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<p>En Muang Kua no hab\u00eda cajeros autom\u00e1ticos para tarjetas visa, solo un peque\u00f1o Western Uni\u00f3n en el que pod\u00edamos cambiar d\u00f3lares por moneda local. Mi compa\u00f1ero se qued\u00f3 tirado, y con los pocos d\u00f3lares que yo ten\u00eda nos arreglamos los dos. Desayunando en una casa de hu\u00e9spedes, sobre las hermosas vistas del r\u00edo Nam Ou, encontramos a Frank, quien conoc\u00eda a Laos como la palma de su mano. Frank era franc\u00e9s, un trotamundos con muchos kil\u00f3metros a sus espaldas y afamada reputaci\u00f3n de viajero. Trabajaba en una nueva gu\u00eda para una compa\u00f1\u00eda de viajes francesa, y nos recomend\u00f3 una ruta poco explorada. Decidimos tomar aquel camino y nuestra idea de seguir hacia el norte se anul\u00f3. Frank permaneci\u00f3 en el pueblo y Babajicarlos y yo seguimos caminando. Pasamos por un puente colgante, en Muang Kua, que conduc\u00eda a una peque\u00f1a escuela. Los ni\u00f1os sal\u00edan a saludarnos a cada paso con un \u201cSabai di, Sabai di\u201d, el saludo tradicional, la primera palabra que escuchamos en Laos. Adonde \u00edbamos siempre escuch\u00e1bamos un grato \u201cSabai di\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kb-gallery-type-grid.kb-gallery-id-_5f25d4-c9{margin:-7px;}.kb-gallery-type-grid.kb-gallery-id-_5f25d4-c9 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item{padding:7px;}.kb-gallery-id-_5f25d4-c9 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-_5f25d4-c9 .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_5f25d4-c9 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-grid kb-gallery-id-_5f25d4-c9 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none kb-gallery-magnific-init\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"2\" data-columns-xl=\"2\" data-columns-md=\"2\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"  ><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land32 kb-has-image-ratio-land32\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muankua.jpg\" data-id=\"5017\" class=\"wp-image-5017 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; 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En \u00e9l pasamos unos d\u00edas mientras decid\u00edamos qu\u00e9 ruta seguir. Durante ese tiempo pude percatarme del pausado ritmo de la vida en Laos, debido a que era un pa\u00eds que apenas contaba con seis millones de habitantes y &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-5012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asia","8":"category-vuelta-al-mundo","9":"tag-laos","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13731,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions\/13731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosmunozgonzalez.com\/litosasturias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}