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Background: Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathet Lao took control of the government, ending a six-century-old monarchy. Initial closer ties to Vietnam and socialization were replaced with a gradual return to private enterprise, a liberalization of foreign investment laws, and the admission into ASEAN in 1997.




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Have you ever had the dream to live in a tree house when you were young? Thanks to the Gibbon Experience, this dream has come true for me during the past 3 days. It was by far one of the craziest and at the same time toughest experiences I have ever had! On Wednesday Morning, our group of 13 people left Houay Xai in a jeep in order to drive to the Bokeo National Reservoir close to the Thai border. During the drive, we had already time to get to know the others a bit better and somehow we just „clicked“ [View Full Entry]

Tina Weltenbummler - Tina Weltenbummler | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 18th 2009 | 192 Views | [diary=429196]

Gemuetliche Runde hoch oben
Der Ausblick war die Bombe... nur die Natur und wir mittendrin
Voll ausgeruestet fuer das Zippen

Day 348: Friday 12th June - Crossing over the Mekong into Laos Today I am crossing over the border into Laos. Despite looking into both the border crossing formalities and whether I can get Laos currency on the other side of the border, I am none the wiser. Some sources say you can’t get a visa on arrival, most say you can, but the length varies between 15-30 days. Similarly, I find a few internet sites that say that there is an ATM in Huayxai on the Laos side of the border, whilst most say there isn’t, and a money changer [View Full Entry]

looking for my zihuatanejo - Andrew Chapman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 24th 2009 | 180 Views | [diary=411448]

1. Huayxai on the other side of the Mekong river at the Thailand-Laos border crossing
6. Sunset over the Mekong river from the rooftop of the guesthouse in Huayxai
11. The guides relaxing in the treehouse, Day 1 of the Gibbon Experience

The bloody staff cancelled our bloody booking! We said we'd be in the office 'first thing'. Dom went there at 7.30 and they were closed, so went back at 8.10 and was apparently 10 minutes late and the bookings had been given to other people! What the hell? So anyway we had to wait till the next day, which wasn't so bad. Hoi Xiay, the town on the Thai border spelt differently on every signpost, doesn't really have much going for it apart from a few nice restaurants and the opportunity for resting from a bus journey that was supposed to [View Full Entry]

LauraDom - Miss Anstey and Seńor Dom | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 20th 2009 | 123 Views | [diary=382452]

Laura on the horrible/wicked drop from treehouse 5
Laura in our treehouse
Our toilet

Ce je bilo 12 stopinj kriza, kaj porecete na OSEM?!!?!?!? PA sem sla menda v tople kraje ... skratka, vceraj zvecer sem se zagrebla za dve deki, ker ena pac ni nobena, cetudi sem imela svojo spalko, in povem vam, se na ISlandiji ni bilo tako mrzlo! BOgi Andrej je imel samo eno deko in zmrzoval ... (Mimogrede, vsi sprasujete, kdo je on. NAceloma pisem o sebi na tem blogu, zato ga ne bom prevec izpostavljala, ampak stvar je taka: dobila sva se v Chiang MAiu, prej sva se staknila na blogu od STA, in ker imava isto pot, pac potujeva [View Full Entry]

IvaG - Iva | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 14th 2009 | 76 Views | [diary=363362]

Protected
Through the rice paddies
Lao lao

Kikirikanje se je zacelo ze ob 4h zjutraj (Christian: "I think we should have eaten more chicks for dinner ..."), ampak bolj kot to je bil problem MRAZ. KDo bi si mislil, da je "zima" v Aziji dejansko zima??? Tako da me je kar malo zeblo ponoci, kljub svoji spalki ... Zajtrk: noodle soup (Sicer iz vrecke, jebiga, tudi LAos je ze moderniziran ocitno), fried egg, deep fried banana (je razlika med friend in deep fried, my friends) in zeleni caj in Nescafee 3 v 1, ki mu tu pravijo, ne vem zakaj, Vietnam coffee. Ampak nek jim to bude cestitka. [View Full Entry]

IvaG - Iva | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 14th 2009 | 74 Views | [diary=363358]

Nasa decka
Lahu people
Bamboo forest

By IvaG
January 12th 2009
Sarong debut Asia » Laos » West » Bokčo Nature Reserve
V guesthouseu smo rabili vse drugo kot mrezo za komarje, kajti Andrejeva all-in-one naprava je kazala, da je bilo ponoci vse tja do piclih 12 stopinj! Torej komarji ne sploh, mraz zelo ja! Ali jebiga, desi se. Ob petju petelinov smo najprej placali sobo (model ni imel 10 tisoc kip za vrniti, tako revni so tu), potem se je nasa cetica odpravila na zajtrk. Svicarja sta jedla spet noodle soup, midva pa fried eggs, vsi pa spet lemongrass tea. Sli smo do officea in po cudezu so nas ze cakali - tu v Laosu je vse bolj na easy. Pustili smo [View Full Entry]

IvaG - Iva | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 14th 2009 | 68 Views | [diary=363351]

Akha people!
Pozer
Dinner

Wow, what an amazing experience that was! The name 'gibbon experience' may be a bit misleading though......our guide hadn't seen one for 10 months.......perhaps they should call it the 'zipwiring experience' instead. It was fab though..... despite the lack of monkeys.... and I'd definitely recommend it, but book ahead because there's rarely a space last minute. I wasn't exactly sure what I'd signed up to as things weren't too clear when I called. The website had said there were two different experiences....classic and waterfall, the latter having more walking involved. Turned out it was [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 2nd 2009 | 61 Views | [diary=357763]


Hi everyone, Pai So the next day we headed off to Pai. The minibus took 3,5 hours to get there but the road was really nice as it was thru a beautiful mountainious terrain. We got some advice about where to stay and so booked ourselves into a small bamboo hut along the Pai river. After we had some dinner we explored the town centre and settled down for some Cupa Libres at a place where they were playing amzing live music. A guitarist, bassist, drummer, saxophonist, fluitist and trompetist were playing really nice jazz, soul and blues music. The town [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 15th 2008 | 70 Views | [diary=345261]


By chrishen
November 15th 2008
Visual material Asia » Laos » West » Bokčo Nature Reserve
See for yourselves: ps there is another movie of me zipping on my hyves. [View Full Entry]

chrishen - Chris Hen | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 15th 2008 | 61 Views | [diary=345256]

Someone zipping
View from 1st night tree house
fisrt night tree house

Filling in some gaps - left Chiang Mai for Chiang Rai where I spent one night, then boosted straight for Houayxay, the first town across the border in Laos. Jumping on a bus from Chiang Rai to Chiang Khong, I got talking to a British couple - sorry Jasmine, last I heard we included Wales in that statement ;-) They were headed to Houayxay too, but were going north from there to live in the jungle for a few days in what is called the Gibbon Experience. I had heard about a Gibbon sanctuary where they had made tree-houses and set [View Full Entry]

Goose goes global - Alastair Fletcher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 10th 2008 | 96 Views | [diary=343555]

Moon and temple shot
The Boatman
My winnings...


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