Laos may still be Indochina’s best kept secret, but that doesn’t mean it’s still the exclusive preserve of the Lonely Planet set. It was the Laotians and latterly, of course, the French who created Luang Prabang, the magical World Heritage city squeezed on an arrow-like peninsula at the grand confluence of the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers. But it's a little-known, visionary French-Canadian architect who, in more contemporary times, has been instrumental in the renaissance of the city's traditional and colonial architectural heritage, rendering Luang Prabang one of Asia's most desirable destinations.
