I'm in the dirty south and it's hot in here. Summers are around 40C with humidity and winters, if you can call it that are around 10C and I don't even need to turn on my heat. When I lived in Canada, the summers were around 20-30C and winters were a chilly -25C on average, otherwise -35C with the windchill. I hated snow and I hated hearing people in tropical countries tell me how pretty snow is since they've never even seen it ever. Try to live in it for 6 months out of a year, driving in it, walking in it, shovelling it, freezing in it, then tell me how pretty you think it is then. I think the perfect weather is having all 4 seasons present throughout the year. I lived on the west coast and it was somewhat like that, summers were warm, autumn had colorful leaves, winter was a wonderland, and spring showers bloomed fresh flowers. I was a poet and didn't even know it. I wonder if we have to worry about things like typhoons or tsunami's or floods from heavy rains in laos. I know there is a rainy season and most bamboo houses are built off the ground, maybe to avoid flooding. I think I saw a rainbow while in Luang Prabang on top of the monument overlooking the city.

How's Vientiane drainage system?  Looking at some of the side profiles of the city, Vientiane is built on a gently sloping surface is it so? If so most of water should drain directly to the Mekong River.

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 12^th Aug, 2009 at 3:39am:

I'm not sure.