Note: the cat is NOT a real estate agent selling this place =P

At the back of the guesthouse section - containers carved from big fat bamboo stems?

Beneath a neighbour’s house - space for parking motorbikes, sheltering livestock, weaving loom & what looks like conical fish traps?

Front verandah next to entrance:

Guests lounge here in the daytime while the boys who work in the

Sunset Guesthouse is in Ban Sop Houn, the village across the bridge over the Nam Ou river from Nong Khiaw proper (aka. Muang Ngoi, not to be confused with Muang Ngoi Neua, an hour away upriver). The cat had contacted the owner (who can speak Lao, Thai, French & English) a month beforehand by email to sunsetgh2 at hotmail dot com:

Dear [cat name],
We are very happy to see your plan (you can find