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Tubing in the Vang Vieng

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May 11th 2009
We left Ponsavanh on a local bus and were very pleasantly relieved to find that the big bus was much better than the evil mini bus and before we knew it we were stopping for donuts and deep fried creepy crawlies half way to vang vieng. The journey was pretty comical, the guy sat behind us had his prize cockerel with him which was quite bizarre but I guess by Laos standards it was pretty uneventfu ... 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