After the booze

Tubing, caving and friends in Jurassic Park!

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July 10th 2006
Hello everybody hope all is well at home. We're in Vang Vieng which is on the way north between Vientienne and Luang Prabang! I like this place a lot - the locals call it Ban Farang, which losely translated means the town full of cheap, drunk, stoned, smelly westerners! The only reason its here at all is because it used to take two days to travel between Luang Prabang and Vientienne so tra ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vang Vieng

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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