Laos
October 29th 2009 So.. after Thailand we took the ferry across the Mekong river into Laos (Huay Xai) where we booked onto a 2 day slow boat heading south to Luang Prabang before we had even cleared immigration. The process was both very convenient and somewhat muddled: as we (and others) queued up to fill in visa applications we were helped through by friendly tour operators selling boat tickets while ensuri
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