Cycling

Laos

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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 ... read more

Asia » Laos » West

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Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more