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Laos Now, Brown Cow?

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October 28th 2009
We're in Luang Prabang, Laos, and it's hot So before I get to what Luang Prabang has been like, let me take a minute to get everyone caught up to things thus far... We spent our last couple of days in Vietnam by taking a two day, overnight trip to Halong Bay, which is arguably the prettiest place we had seen. To get there, it was a pretty standard three hour drive from Hanoi. When we arrived a ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Luang Prabang

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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