From Thailand to Laos to Thailand to Myanmar to Thailand.....its been a while!
February 9th 2009 Since leaving Chang Mai, we boarded a mini bus and headed for the Laos border. We arrived early in the evening, had some dinner and a couple beers and went to sleep. Waking in the morning we were taken to the Thai immigration side for the border formalities, then boarded a long boat and were taken across the river to the Laos border. The Immigration into Laos was a long, very frustrating system
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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more 
