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Luang Prabang: The city the world forgot

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April 24th 2009
I arrived to Luang Prabang after my slow boat journey down the Mekong. The title to this post is not misleading, Luang Prabang is really a place where not much has changed in the last couple hundred years. Still a very communist country, there are alot of hammer and sickle flags flyin around, Laos had not opened its doors to the outside until very recently. There are no western establishments in L ... 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