Wat Sainyaphum

November 25th 2009
Our next stop was a massive push up north, after 10 hours on a local bus stopping at every possible place, buying every possible thing on sale on the sides of the road, we finally made it to Savannakhet. Savannakhet is a border town to Thailand, we didn’t realise how close it was, right across the river. It was too much for G who has been waiting to go to Thailand for 8 odd years since her l ... read more

Asia » Laos » South » Savannakhet

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

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Tony and George

Hi there, This is our first ever time "blogging" so hope it goes well and doesn't bore anybody. The best thing about this blog is if you subscribe the website emails you when we've updated it so you don't need to keep checking. For those who don't know (surely there isn't a living soul who doesn't know???) the aim of our trip is to get to Australia without getting on a plane, after extensive research we reckon this probably isn't going to happen once we get to Indonesia, but we will try our hardest to achieve this goal and will definately go the furthest we can go by train/boat/bus/bike... full info

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