Luang Prebang - Phonsavan - Vang Vien - Ventiane Okay, so Laos, well the first thing that hits you, as you stumble off the 29 hour, hot, DVT inducing bus ride, which you will spend with feet wrapped cosily in bundles of wire (until you are all herded off the bus for two hours whilst the wire is offloaded in some random middle-of-nowhere factory) is the colour. It's almost obscene. The Blue Sky, The Green Hills, The White Clouds, it's like Laos has stolen the colour from it's Asian neighbours - fought Bangkok for the golds and blues, China for the reds, sucked the green from the hills of Vietnam, it's almost nauseating, first thing I thought was that God had been messing with the saturation on his TV set. The original Environmentalist philosophers believed that
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