Luang Prabang (Kipperbang) Send three and fourpence...waterfalls and elephants!
July 22nd 2009 We arrived in the bus station and squeezed into a jumbo tuk tuk with several others. It is amazing how many youngsters (late teens and early twenties) we meet who are absolutely astounded that we are doing this trip with children - they really seem to think that life stops with children! I guess that in our desperation to discourage teenage pregnancies this is the message we convey. Our fellow
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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 
