The land of a million elephants South
April 2nd 2007 Most people I had been travelling with had flown home or gone separate ways by/after Viantiane, so there was only two of us, an English guy called Andy and me, heading for the more remote places in the south. Our first stop was Savannakhet, and it took eight hours in a local bus (with no air con) to get there. The trip wasn't quite as bad as it first looked like: it took about an hour before we ev
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