url='/Videos/2883.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2883.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Agnes swings The road to Vang Viang was 5 hours of twists and turns, our driver gesturing to the kids with AK47s that he had no cigarettes as we passed through the mountains. Laos is a totalitarian one party state, which feels like a communist one, especially as they have slips of paper for anyone going anywhere. I never got a satisfactory answer from anyone about whom these armed individuals were - not regular soldiers as they often had no uniform? Armed militia protecting opium crops? Insurgents from the minority groups protecting their families? It didn't matter in the end, as our journey passed without incident, but in the north there have been reports of buses strafed by machine gun fire. Hopefully, it's not something that I'll ever experience. Anyway, dumped in the middl
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