Mountain Village in Laos | Lao People Pt2 - Children of the Khmu | Now in Lao

[@bonamy25]

@7:00. Good song, “To Sir with Love.” Haven’t heard it in a while. .. 🤗

[@ersatzethan5370]

Build me up, buttercup!!....don't break my heart!...hahaha....great one, mate!❤🙏

[@antruok4950]

Rural life harvesting , natural , content , happy - kid and duck town , happy happy - Thanks Todd 👍🙏🇦🇺🍻

[@supraman1250]

Another great video, loving the scenery, the people and the simple lifestyles.

[@TwoPineapples]

Aloha! Enjoyed this video! Mahalo for sharing!

[@FIFOPete]

that litlle fella loading up the rice bags!, what a legend 👍👍

[@svendphimdi27]

Hi. Nice video.

[@NowinLao]

Thank you

[@MrGeckolo]

What a beautiful mountain ⛰ views from drone👍🏼👍🏼

[@craigh714]

this has been a great roadtrip! keep on enjoying...

[@NowinLao]

Glad to have you along Craig 👍

[@craigh714]

@@NowinLao See if you feel that way after I come and wont leave :)

[@Yogirliej4dee]

@@NowinLao they really love kids! They all play together, not be lonely.

[@maiden_1967]

Nice one guys 👍 🇱🇦

[@NowinLao]

Thanks Greg

[@LaoSoftware]

It's always fun driving on those dirt road. That's most natural soil. Very clean. No pollution. These families are happy and healthy. They don't have stress of the modern life. They live the simple life with nature.

[@SoopSah420]

I am a first generation Lao American and love watching your stuff! Thank you for these awesome videos of my parents homeland. keep up the amazing work! =)

[@tonysavanna8703]

Khop jai video der

[@striker8231]

Great work my man you really bring Lao alive just the best thanks.

[@portline3]

You certainly made their day if not their year at those villages, Suprised to see such a decent and good value Guesthouse at Muang Et. 👍👍😁

[@scotbownes5627]

👍 love the videos - always -

[@JustAnotherDude486]

I need a road trip like this. I can't wait to be back in Laos.

[@baovi.baolaos9039]

Sabaidee

[@NowinLao]

Jao Sabaidee 🙏

[@philalex8427]

Mate loved this video again.Your down to earth Aussie attitude is so refreshing. The red dirt roads remind me of the North in W.A. What unbelievable friendly people and fantastic attitudes. Just emphasises you don’t need all the worldly possessions to be happy. We can learn a lot from that.

[@nickhubbard3671]

Great road trip!

[@retiredinthailand24]

Terrific video man..... can’t wait for your arrival in ao mung? and ur soundtrack...a lost in Lao culture soundtrack ...very cool..especially for those of us who are old....

[@kman6716]

I was a bit worried about going there now,I’m full of confidence.Thanks to both of you.Love em.😍🙏🏻

[@jonasjohnsson4429]

Thank you for showing! :)

[@johnravese4513]

Nice work, your taking me back 30 years what Thailand was like. ( Chumphon) now based in Phuket. Currently in quarantine in Bangkok, your videos are excellent to watch as I’m counting the days. Haha 👍

[@jennymark7403]

What beautifull country side . No wonder U Marvell at the views as you drive, kids were funny though love the drone but not the farang with a stick haha. Does neene realise , what we as Aussies see , great viewing Todd and neene

[@stephenbutz7067]

Thank you for the your welcome 😊

[@fasteddy60]

Thanks for the ride! :)

[@Wapiman]

I have not seen that type of rice thrasher in the flat lands they have in the South. Looks properly sized for the smaller sized fields that they have in the mountains. Great stuff.

[@jayG3487]

6:30 " I'm still pretty high,...I men were still pretty high mate! great vid series you two. Ya keep me smiling

[@NowinLao]

Hey Jay... hope it's not too cool in your neck of the woods brother 😝

[@jayG3487]

@@NowinLao Gonna enjoy my 3 hours and 40 minutes of daylight tomorrow. I better not forget the sun screen eh mate.

[@antman8498]

I’m moving back to Laos And living the simple life. I still have family there , your wife reminds me of my Aunts she’s so nice. Love your videos 👍 Your Laos is pretty good Todd probably better then mine Lol

[@mtnmandeluxe5429]

Hey Todd, great video. To me,,it is soooooo awesome to get videos about the same place,,seeing and hearing things from a different perspective. Neenee,,when she explains things with the English captions,, and you,,explain things slightly different,,or you each notice a different aspect. Anyway,,good job MATES! Lol. The long dirt road reminds me of a trip I took in the desert in northern Nevada that was about 300k from the edge of pavement to the next edge of pavement. Not Oz long , but long by U.S. standards. I love dirt roads,,I hope they never go away,, although since I was a kid ,,they have paved 1000s of miles of dirt in the state of Oregon where I was born. Dirt roads seem to keep most of the riffraff out. Lol. The crazy thing about that trip,,was 2 days later,,at my Uncles house,,my transmission went to shit. If it had gone out in the desert,,my dried out,,shriveled up carcass would still be out there 20 years later lmao. All the way across that road,, i met one car and saw maybe 3 ranch houses in the far distance. I did have 20 gallons of water with,,so I'd have survived a couple weeks. But no worries.,,i made it,,lmao. Like always in your vids,, it was the smiling happy people that made the show. Loved it. Thanks Todd and Neenee,,take care,,Ttyl,,,Marlon

[@jamesmathers6204]

Great vid mate.

[@jamesmathers6204]

great trip up there. the kids are so curious. they forget to be scared of you at first!

[@Yogirliej4dee]

Those kids always look out of each other and I guess it takes the village. The moms don’t worry about them there’s always another grandma, Aunty, or friend to keep an eye out. The moms only keep the babies close.

[@francokwok1667]

Lovely village indeed. I had not travelled outside Vientiane when I was a young boy in early 1960s. However, I worked during school holidays on wheatbin in the country side of Western Australia, as weightbridge officer. The bin which we took care of could save upto 20,000 metric tons of wheat, and there were only 3 of us, namely quality officer to make sure that the wheat were dry enough, weightbridge officer to keep books of wheat off loaded by individual farmers and to make payments to them, and the cleaning officers who made sure no wheat grains lying around. We all stayed on a hut which was self sufficient with electricity generated from windmills, water from the well near our hut. And we went to the nearest village once every two weeks, to buy our provisions. The village was very small with perhaps some 10 familities only, and the shop was basically the post office and bank also. And we were their major clients and they let us bought things on credit. Life very lonely and boring. That was in late 1970s. We did not have a car, and we simply walked to the village. We had to be a member of the labour union, though we were all students, before we could take up our jobs. The head of the union also came to see us at least once in a week, to see that we were not in good care. A very fond memory indeed, as the scenes are completely different from what we see here in the videos. We had huge trucks and machinery, and farming indeed very mechanical.

[@lovemebrittany5289]

New subscriber and viewer here! 👋🏼 thanks so much for these raw realistic videos! I’m 26, Laos, and have never been. I have lots of family there and my gma always wants me to go with her when she visits but me being so Americanized I was always scared because I’m not used to rural areas. Laos is sooo beautiful and I’m mad at myself for doubting if I should go or not. This gave me the motivation to visit the homeland 🥰 thank you!

[@NowinLao]

Haha i'm bloody mad at you for not visiting!!! Many people your age visit and absolutely love it here. It really is a different world Brittany, and something i believe, everybody needs to experience. Thanks for the sub. Much more of this trip to come. Vids every Tues, Thurs and Sat evenings US time 😀👍

[@tiashiraz8430]

Love these videos. Brings back so many memories. I enjoyed my years living in the north of Laos. It was 20 years ago and I had no electricity or running water, but the experience was wonderful - rural Laos is a beautiful place and the people are incredibly warm and hospitable (even if our white skin makes some villagers think of ghosts - a comment I frequently got being as I am a very fair-skinned blonde!👻😱😆)

[@chiccenhawkc]

💯💙🔥👍💯💙🔥👍

[@billsimpson2392]

👍

[@stephenbutz7067]

It's much different then I saw in Vietnam in 1966-67 . It was harvested by hand , beatened against bamboo slats over a basket , and then bagged up .

[@dennyzeecko5183]

Love those kids, Do they have a school near by? I did"t see anything that looked like a school. The only thing that lifts people out of poverty is an education.and with all those kids some of them probably are pretty smart, but you never know until you test them, too bad. Like your videos, keep it up. I'm to old to do that kinda thing but its fun watching you two travel around having a great re-pour with the people.

[@Untamedlove]

Neenee, The Handle you are Holding we call it the " Oh Shit " Handle..lol..because we hold on to it when someone drives Crazy...lol..

[@jorgenrh7598]

🤗😉🤗😉😊🙂💛🧡❤🤠

[@retiredinthailand24]

hey, do u just put the drone up as you need to stop or are you eyeing the sweet spots and pulling over and getting it up there...?

[@NowinLao]

A bit of both Craig. If I see a really good spot we will stop, other times throw it up where we needed to.

[@jamesmathers6204]

best. answer. ever. why is it in a circle?

[@jralphdelaney2192]

What drivers license do you need to drive where you are?

[@NowinLao]

An International license

[@Lung_Jim...Farang_Bannok]

You were traveling on the road to the new airport. I wonder why they would put that new airport in the middle of nowhere when there is one in about 30km away in Sam Nuea. Did they run out of space to expand?

[@NowinLao]

Not enough space in Sam Neua for an International Airport. The existing one is a domestic airport. 👍

[@tingtingnoy3133]

Ducks know its dinner time

[@Untamedlove]

Todd, is this the First time the Village has seen a Foreigner ?

[@NowinLao]

Probably the first time for some of those young ones 😁

[@Untamedlove]

@@NowinLao I think its the First time they seen a Drone....So Cool.

[@dennyzeecko5183]

That pig is a wild one that became domesticated, That's very interesting , she looks like she might be pregnant?

[@neeneelaolife7131]

Old lady told me This village have more of children inside the village 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@zoosiab1976]

Why is there always that one guy with thumb down?

[@NowinLao]

Lol.. there's always one Andy 😏

[@jennymark7403]

His hand is upside down that's why haha

[@zoosiab1976]

@@jennymark7403 You're right!

[@tingtingnoy3133]

These people don't really mix, a khmu village is a khmu village, go to the next mountain it's a Hmong village, so on and so fourth, and there are some villages where they don't like visitors that are not their ethnicity, and been told to keep on driving, rituals and cultures are so distinct its like each mountain is a different country, unlike anything in the states

[@NowinLao]

No, never experienced that. Yes there are many villages of just one ethnicity, but to say they don't mix is incorrect. Just my last video, there were many Tai Dam, Lao Loum and other ethnicities living side by side. We have visited many mixed villages. Have never felt unwelcome in any village.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKqwqpWArZWbpKc

[@tingtingnoy3133]

@@NowinLao that’s good, I find that people are always willing to talk and be friendly, I’m not a big fan of the terms Lao Loum, Soung, etc, it’s more towards nationalism, It takes away from the individual ethnic groups identity and their culture, which is what Thai’s do, Tai dam linguistically are closely associated with the Lue in Sipsongbanna, if you head west which you have the population becomes more Lue Bc of Sipsongbanna is to the west, Tai dam’s origins being Dien bien Phu to the East.