Laos
May 1st 2008 Huay Xai
Stepping off the Long Boat from across the Mekong, we anticipated a more relaxed (and cheaper!) world in Laos... And didn't find one. If anything the prices here were more expensive, not less, than in Thailand, as the savvy locals on the tourist trail jacked prices up to equal what you would pay back home. Also confusing was everyone's insistance on quoting prices in either US
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