The One Where We Went Tubing in Vang Vieng and Watched Numerous Episodes of Friends
January 26th 2009 Another 6 hours on yet another bus twisting and turning through Laos' mountanous terrain, we arrived in a small town called Vang Vieng. Vang Vieng is situated along the Nam Song river with beautiful limestone mountains in the background, although this town exists solely along the backpacker's travelling scene due to the number of bars that have quickly popped up along the river in order to servic
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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 
