New Mandala

[Song Kinh is a Singaporean writer who lives in Northern Thailand.]
Last year the wildly successful Elephant festival in Hongsa (in northern Laos) attracted around 10,000 visitors. About 2000 of those were foreigners, some leaning heavily on sticks, others elegant attired, others dreadlocked and ganja inspired.
They had made, in white fella terms, an epic journey. It’s not [...]

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