Canoe Carnage, Don Khon, Laos

You'd have thought that painting your canoe black and yellow would have been enough to keep the other canoes away... but alas it doesn't work like that. I suspect a wee bit of a rise in the rivers water level didn't help.

Entering the Fuggy Haze

October 1st 2008
Bangkok - Pakse - Don Khong - Don Khon - Pakse - Attapeu As I retrieved Vik’s rucksack from an overly confident tuk-tuk drivers vehicle I banged my head on a typically well positioned and unfeasibly rusty Laos road sign. There was an audible “oooo” from the group of drivers who surrounded us. “Happens to me all the time; that was nothing - in Scotland we put barbs on the signs so you r ... read more

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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

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