The road Huay Xai - Luang Nam Tha in northern Laos is an experience. It's the worst road I have ever been on; it's been under construction for 6 years and will most likely still be for at least the next six.
A 150km red gash through the landscape, it wrecks spines and covers everything along it in a blanket of red dust. Sometimes, the excavation of the hillside causes landslides that amuse the local children but set the work of the belching, thundering cranes and bulldozers back a few months. Other times, it exposes huge, magnificent abstract murals of the colourful veins of rock. It must be an amazing sight from the air.
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