Phongsali
13th December 2004
 
  
mountain town
Chinese influence is very prominent in Phongsali with the architecture being a strange mix of the Chinese post-revolutionary concrete style, Lao houses of wood and brick with tin roofs, and bamboo or mud huts with straw roofs; centrally located in town is the Chinese-built Phongsali Hotel, a four storey building that is the highest structure in this northern most province of Laos