Curses! If I had taken more than a cursory look at dook’s photo, I would have spotted the mountain at the end of the runway.
Long Tieng is on my bucket list of places to visit, mainly because of having read “Flying through Midnight” by John T. Halliday. An autobiographical story about flying C-123s in Laos, which culminates in an emergency NORDO letdown into the jagged karst terrain surrounding Long Tieng, on a dark moonless night and then successfully landing on the unlit runway, not knowing if they would be shot for landing at a forbidden “non-existent” base. Gripping reading.