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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 Path... [read more]
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 Path... [read more] Blog: Monk hunting and waterfall jumping...
Date: April 25th 2009
We were all quite surprised by Luang Prabang when we pulled up to the centre in our tuk tuk from the bus station. Perhaps naively we had all expected the second largest city in Laos to be a little more built up than it was. Not that this came as a disappointment as it was lovely not to see a highrise in sight and it was literally all made up of small rows of colonial houses scattered with ornate ... read more
Date: April 25th 2009
We were all quite surprised by Luang Prabang when we pulled up to the centre in our tuk tuk from the bus station. Perhaps naively we had all expected the second largest city in Laos to be a little more built up than it was. Not that this came as a disappointment as it was lovely not to see a highrise in sight and it was literally all made up of small rows of colonial houses scattered with ornate ... read more
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Sophie & Dale are off.. we're taking a year or two off work, renting the house, found a foster home for Stuart (cat!) and are venturing out to the big wide world. There are too many places we want to see so we're going to attempt to see as many as them as possible and are going to keep on going until the funds run out. Hopefully that will be somewhere between one and two years but we'll see how it goes...
Our rough itinerary is as follows;
South America - Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile
New Zealand - North & South Island in a ca... full info
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