Sabaidee from Laos!! We are in "sleepy" Vientiane, about to leave today to Vietnam by Laos Airline ("Laos Air - On a Wing and a Prayer". We have had three wonderful weeks in Laos and are sad to leave, but looking forward to Vietnam. Laos is quite and unspoilt and the people are so friendly - all the children shout "Sabiadee" (hello) and wave as you go past with big smiles. Yet this is one of the twenty poorest countries of the world and we feel a bit "rich" - the average income is something like three hundred and fifty dollars a year, what we spent last week.... We stayed three nights in a lovely converted French colonial hospital on Don Khone, in the very very south on Laos on the Mighty Mekong, where the storms
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