What is the experience of living in Laos?

If I can choose again, I would rather not have been to Laos, because Laos left me with experiences of fear and regret. I was afraid that I had received cigarettes from my local sister and almost stayed in Laos. What I regret is that if I stay, I can actually retire early.

It only takes about two and a half hours to fly directly from Guangzhou to Vientiane. The international airport in Vientiane looks very small. It takes 10 to get to the city by airport bus, but there are fewer flights. I took my luggage to the place where I took the bus. I just took a bus. I was too lazy to wait and took a taxi to the city. /kloc-60 yuan with fares over 0/0 km.

When I entered the city, I found that although their roads were not wide, the streets were relatively clean and there was no conspicuous garbage. The buildings on both sides of the road are basically only two or three stories, and the towering buildings are easy to identify as temples. There are few buses and private cars in the local area, and most people travel by motorcycle.

On the road, I saw that although the temperature was over 30 degrees, local men wore long-sleeved trousers, while women wore long sleeves and long straight skirts, which were wrapped tightly, but slippers were usually worn on their feet, or most of them were with toes.

I just answered the phone on my way back to the hotel after dinner. Suddenly a lady on the roadside handed me a cigarette, and I subconsciously took it. I didn't expect to find her following me when I went to the hotel, and I couldn't communicate with her. I'm a little nervous watching her smile at me. After asking the hotel manager for help, the hotel manager explained it to my lady and me for a long time before persuading her to leave.

The hotel manager told me not to accept cigarettes from strange young ladies casually in Laos. In Laos, they pass cigarettes to show their affection for others. Once you accept them, it means you are willing to associate with them. If you refuse to accept cigarettes, it will bring you unnecessary trouble and make it difficult to get out.

I took a deep breath after listening to the manager's explanation. Unexpectedly, picking up a cigarette almost caused misunderstanding, which may make me unable to go home. However, with my understanding of Laos, I can't help but regret rejecting my little sister.

Walking on the streets of Laos, I found that local women were not as tanned as I thought. Many young ladies have fair skin, delicate facial features and well-proportioned figure. Some of them are hybrids at first glance, taller than the locals. Generally speaking, young ladies in Laos are very delicate and easy to feel taken care of.

Lao women have strong family values. Their education from childhood is to teach their husbands and children. Many people don't go out to work after marriage and concentrate on taking care of their families. Moreover, they are used to listening to what their husbands say, and generally there will be no opposite opinions. They obey everything they say.

Women in Laos are hard-working housekeepers, and many women have to go out to work during the day. In the Lao market, most stall owners are women, and even the marketing managers are mainly women. It's hard to take care of my family and do housework when I get home at night.

Lao women generally get married earlier and have a lower education level. Many people get married before the age of 20, and after the age of 20, they are leftover women, and people around them will talk behind their backs. They get married early and have children early. One in ten mothers gave birth before 17 years old, and it is common to have more than three children at home.

Women in Laos like to drink. During the day, women who set up stalls in the market are holding a bottle of wine and shouting business. In the evening, you will see many local young ladies sitting around drinking beer.

Women in Laos are fond of men in China. They want to marry people in China, but their ideas are more traditional, homesick and unwilling to marry far away. Moreover, they have to go through complicated procedures before they can marry foreigners, so few people really marry abroad, and they can only stay in the local area to get married.

Laos are used to a slow-paced life, and it is normal to be half an hour late at the appointed time. Urging them has no obvious effect, but it is easy to cause disgust. In their eyes, overtime does not exist. Even if they have overtime pay, no one wants to stay. After work, they will go out to be chic. As for money, they have no habit of saving money and enjoy the lifestyle of drinking today and getting drunk tomorrow.

The climatic conditions in Laos are suitable for planting rice, which can be harvested three times a year, but Laos only plant rice once a year, and would rather rest at home than farm in the other two seasons.

By the river in Laos, local people can often be seen bathing in the open air. Women take a bath in the river wrapped in bath towels, and some take their children to take a bath, without avoiding others' eyes. The local family conditions are limited, there is no bathroom to take a bath, and there is no running water at home, which forms the habit of taking a bath by the river, and washing clothes by the way, killing two birds with one stone.

The river in Laos is not polluted too much, and it is relatively clear. Many villages are built by the river. Most people take a bath in the lower reaches of the river and use it to get drinking water in the upper reaches.

Laos can't live without alcohol. Drinking is the main entertainment for local people after work. After work, they are either drinking or on their way. The local Lao beer is one of the top ten beers in the world, and L4 is the best. 8 yuan a bottle is not cheap for low-paid Laos, but they enjoy it. It is common to drink a day's income in one night.

When visiting the Lao people's home, the host will usually treat everyone to a cup of solidarity wine, that is, with a bottle of wine and a cup. The host will drink one cup first, and then the guests will drink one in turn. There is also a tradition, that is, the host takes out homemade glutinous rice jar wine to entertain, inserts several straws made of bamboo into a jar wine, and all the people present are chatting and drinking around the jar.

Laos like riding motorcycles. On the streets of Laos, you can see men, women and children on motorcycles whizzing by. Strangely, Lao people have a slow temper, but when riding a bicycle, it feels like stepping on the accelerator, and the roar of stepping on the accelerator can be heard everywhere.

Laos use motorcycles to the extreme. It is common for three people to ride in a car. Their level of loading with motorcycles is even more amazing. Locals also like to modify. Some motorcycles have become sudden cars for soliciting customers, and some have become mobile stalls for selling goods.

The monthly income of Laos is generally not high. The average monthly income is equivalent to 1000 RMB, and the minimum wage is 750 yuan RMB. However, many people can't even reach the minimum wage, because many Laotians stop working the next day after receiving their wages every month, and then go to work when their wages are used up. In fact, they don't go to work for a month.

The monthly income of assembly line workers in Laos is 600 yuan to 800 yuan, the basic salary of salespeople in shopping malls is 1000 to 1200 yuan, the monthly income of doctors is 1500 yuan, the monthly income of bank employees is 2,500 yuan, and the monthly income of programmers is more than 3,000 yuan, which is considered as a proper representative of high income in Laos.

Lao people's income is not high, and prices are not low. A bottle of mineral water 3 yuan, a bottle of Coke 4 yuan, a box of soybean milk 2.5 yuan and a bucket of instant noodles 8 yuan.

A catty of rice in 3.4 yuan, potatoes in 2.5 yuan, tomatoes in 4.5 yuan, cucumbers and onions in 7.5 yuan 10 yuan.

A Jin of fish 4.5 yuan, ribs 18 yuan, chicken breast 20 yuan, shrimp 25 yuan.

Local fruits are cheaper, bananas are fifty cents a catty and mangoes are 2 yuan's, but imported fruits are much more expensive, such as apples 10 yuan, grapes 12 yuan and strawberries 1 yuan.

Eat fast food at roadside stalls 10 yuan, and you can eat two kinds of meat and vegetables. The average person in the buffet hot pot is 50 yuan, and the dinner in high-end restaurants contains drinks, which is basically 100 yuan per person.

The urban area of Laos is very small. Generally, it is enough to take a taxi around 40 yuan in every city. It's cheaper to take a tuk-tuk bus, which takes about 20 minutes to get to 30 yuan. You can also ask a local lady to be a tour guide for one day, 100 yuan.

The rent in Laos is not low. It costs 2000 yuan to share a bed with others, and 300 yuan rents an apartment alone. The average house price in Vientiane is 5,000 to 6,000 yuan, and 500,000 yuan can buy a garden villa in the suburbs, but for Laos, which has no deposit habit, it is astronomical.

Lao people's glutinous rice is their staple food. The traditional practice is to soak glutinous rice in water the night before and steam it in a funnel-shaped rice tube made of bamboo for about half an hour the next day.

The glutinous rice in Laos has moderate hardness and delicate taste. Traditionally, it is eaten without chopsticks and knives and forks. Grab it by hand, knead it into a ball and dip it in fish sauce or Chili sauce.

Lao people like to eat barbecue, especially grilled fish and roast chicken. Fish and chickens in Laos are basically wild and free-range, ensuring fresh and original ecology. They like to sprinkle salt on grilled fish and dry Chili powder on roast chicken.

Malaysian red is the top snack in the hearts of Laos, which means raw papaya. Papaya chopped with millet pepper, fish sauce, oil label and other spices. Hot and sour crispy papaya is very refreshing and appetizing.

There are temples and monks everywhere in Laos. When you see a monk on the road, you should make a folded ceremony and put your hands and fingers together on your forehead to show your respect.

Take off your shoes and don't wear revealing clothes when you enter the temple. Free square towels will be provided at the entrance of the temple. Women wearing short skirts and shorts can only enter the temple with a square towel around their lower body. After entering, you can't touch Buddha statues and decorations at will, and you can't kill or cut down trees around the temple.

In Luang Prabang, Laos, you can get up before 6 am and see the most famous giving scene. The monks in the temple wore orange robes and walked barefoot in the street. People in the street sit in a row and put dumplings or zongzi in their hands into the monk's rice bowl.

Local temples don't provide meals, and monks need alms to solve the problem of eating. They only eat two meals a day. After breakfast and lunch, they don't eat until 7 o'clock the next day.

Men in Laos will become monks once in their lives and stay in temples for weeks to months. It can be said that a man who has never been a monk has an incomplete life.

In Laos, there are generally public bamboo tubes for water intake. You can't scoop water directly with your own tools. The water in the gourd is for drinking, not for washing.

Laos like yellow, pink and orange, but they don't like white. They don't cover themselves with white quilts or use white mosquito nets, but their lanterns are white.

If you are a guest in Laos, you can't visit the courtyard and bedroom of the host's house without the host's permission, and don't tamper with the furnishings of the host's house.

When you are a guest in Laos, the host will leave the fish head or chicken head to the guest to show respect. The guest should thank the host and accept it warmly.

Laos generally sit cross-legged on the ground indoors and can't point their feet at others. Men sit cross-legged, while women sit on their knees.

Laos generally only use cow dung to fertilize the land, but not human dung as fertilizer. When they come home from the fields, they should wash their shoes before entering the house.

Don't bargain in shopping malls in Laos, buy at a fixed price. You can bargain at the market stalls, but the stall owner agrees that bargaining is the best way to buy things.

When women in Laos pray, they will wrap a white thread soaked in perfume around their families' wrists, say a blessing and take it off after three days.