village scene

SamNeua region

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January 21st 2009
21/1/09 One bus per day leave for SamNeua around 7 am. The market was rather busy during early hour in ViengTong, I mean...compared with during the day. The weather seem like with certain pre-setting, foggy until well past 10am, then the sun came and clear blue sky. But in fact, if we ascended couple of hundreds meter then we would be above the fog, like today the bus climbed up through the win ... read more

Asia » Laos » North

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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