Cambodia, Laos, Thailand

Southeast Asia Report 14: Joe Guest House in Laos

by Ippei Tsuruga Views: 153

November 15, 2007 Vientiane (Laos)

Joe Guest House
Joe Guest House

“A night in Laos”

There is a funny thing here. The name of this guest house is ‘Joe Guest House’, but why? There is no western owner here. Probably, somebody’s name in this family is nearly ‘Joe’. But it’s still funny. When this owner took phone up, he said, “No English! No English! I don’t know! I don’t know!” A calling person must be an English speaker who found the name of this accommodation on a book, maybe Lonely Planet. Of course, everybody think this hostel has at least one English speaker. But actually not. It’s just funny.

Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner 39000kip
Drink 17500kip
Internet 9000kip
Guest House 5US$
Shoes 20US$
TukTuk 5000kip
Total 70500kip + 25US$ (=33$)

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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