Salut a tous, çet été je pars en Thaïlande / Malaisie. Mais j'ai énormément envie de faire un petit tour au laos !! Est ce que la mousson rend le voyage a cette période impossible ou cela reste faisable ( c'est a dire ne pas resté bloquer pendant une semaine a cause des intempéries :)
Pas de risques particuliers. Il est possible que certaines routes soient bloquees 2 ou 3 jours mais rarement plus. Excepter si grosses innondations mais ce n'est pas la norme.
Par contre, se prendre de grosses pluies durant 1h a 1/2 journee est plus frequent.
Merci pour ta réponse. Je pense que l'on va vraiment y faire un petit tour alors, mais plus vers la fin du voyage, genre début septembre ( j'espere qu'il n'y a pas de grande différence entre aout et septembre niveau climat ;) )
Est ce que la mousson rend le voyage a cette période impossible ou cela reste faisable
Malgré tout ce qui s'est passé en 2011, des millions de gens ont survécus, dans l'absolu c'est possible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods
Les inondations de 2011 en Thaïlande ont ont fait 666 morts et 3 disparus (de la fin du mois de juillet au 4 décembre 2011) et affecté plus de cinq millions de personnes. Sixty-five of Thailand's 77 provinces were declared flood disaster zones
pour le laos et la malaisie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Southeast_Asian_floods
Ces articles n abordent que l'essentiel, on ne parle pas des piqures des milliards de moustique qui sont nés grâce aux conditions favorables autre entraînées par la mousson, ni la recrudescence des maladies transmises par les moustiques ou autres (dengue, mais aussi paludisme, encéphalite japonaise...). On ne parle pas non plus des nombreuses pollutions chimiques suite aux inondations qui emportent les charognes animales et humaines, mais aussi les poubelles domestiques, et des poubelles industrielles peu avouables.
c'est a dire ne pas resté bloquer pendant une semaine a cause des intempéries :)
L'aéroport international de don mueang à Bangkok est resté fermé pendant près de neuf mois, ça te donne une idée du genre de dégâts que les gens du supporter la suite de ces inondations. Ça donne une idée du nombre de routes coupées pendant des mois, et qui sont encore dans un état impropre à la circulation à ce jour. Des gens sont restés bloqués pendant bien plus d'une semaine. Une situation difficile à gérer quand tu es sur place, et encore plus difficile à gérer quand tu ne connais pas les lieux, que tu ne parles pas la langue, et que tu n'as aucun réseau capable de se secourir.
Pas de risques particuliers. Il est possible que certaines routes soient bloquees 2 ou 3 jours mais rarement plus. Excepter si grosses innondations mais ce n'est pas la norme.
les familles des centaines de morts, celles des millions de sinistrés apprécieraient certainement le «Pas de risques particuliers»
Il faut savoir que la mousson n'est pas la meme sur tout le Laos en meme temps. Elle commence plutot sur le nord et arrive sur le sud courant septembre......
Ça, c'est ce que disent les statistiques. Pour le temps qu'il fera au mois d'août 2013, aucun prévisionniste météo sérieux ne pourra te donner d'informations avant que tu partes en vacances. La question que tu dois te poser est : est-ce que tu es prêt à prendre le risque de te fourrer dans la gueule du loup, dans des embrouilles telles que pendant l'année 2011 Par exemple
Je vais en Thaïlande en août 2013, mais je sais à quoi je n'expose. Je vis en zone tropicale, cycloniques et de mousson depuis près de 20 ans. Cette année, je n'ai pas le choix dans la date, et je prends ça comme une expérience. Ça fait un certain temps que je me balade dans le quartier, mais je n'ai pas encore connu la Thaïlande pendant la mousson.
Je sais que si je n'ai pas de chance, ça peut se transformer en une galère colossale. Je crois que c est mieux de savoir ca avant de partir.
PS: site une pas encore fixé sur ta destination, l'Indonésie est dans une situation climatique beaucoup plus favorable que l Asie du Sud-Est aux mois de juillet août septembre (C'est même la haute saison touristique a BALI en juillet août)
Moi je suis deja partie au Vietnam et Thailande 3 années en aout et pour l'instant on touche du bois on a eu 1jour de pluie..
Après je ne dis pas que c'est pareil a coté mais bon la météo n'est pas certaine.
Nous partons cette année en aout au Cambodge et au Laos :)
J'ai voyagé 3 semaines dans le nord du Laos l'an dernier au mois d'août et je n'ai rencontré aucun problème. Je me déplaçais avec les transports en commun et certaines fois. Il pleuvait presque tous les jours, une pluie fine ou des averses, je me suis équipée d'un grand ciré que l'on trouve de partout et ai pu profité de belles ballades en campagne, y compris à vélo (qu'on peut louer aussi de partout). J'y retourne cette année aussi au mois d'août.
J'imagine que la météo, comme partout, est changeante et qu'aucune année ne ressemble à une autre...
Bonne préparation!
"Voyager ne sert pas beaucoup à comprendre mais à réactiver pendant un instant l’usage des yeux : la lecture du monde".
Italo Calvino, Collection de sable (1984)
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