As with all Laotian ethnic groups, there is virtually no occupational specialization in Hmong villages.

Once you stumble into a Hmong village and find everybody's heads stuck on poles, you don't shock easy after that.

Ban Tajok village is a Hmong village along Route 7.

Phakeo village is a remote Hmong village located on the upper slopes of the mountains and can only be reached by walking with a guide.

Twice driving outside Luang Prabang we stopped at Hmong villages.

Most visitors do a quick tour of the temple, the Hmong village and perhaps the winter palace grounds, altogether missing the surrounding park.

Other trails pass Hmong villages that rarely get foreign visitors.

For a less commercialised Hmong village than Doi Pui, instead of going left on the road past the palace head right.

For $2 each they agreed to take us to a footpath about three miles out of town, leading toward a Hmong village.