Vientiane Photo 16

Vientiane

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December 17th 2009
After our short stay in backpackers paradise we set off for the capital city to see a few sights, but also more importantly to visit the Vietnamese embassy and see if they'd give us a tourist visa (except for a few nationalities, you can't get one on the border). As we've grown accustomed to dangerous and uncomfortable forms of transport, we decided that it would be fun to go there in the back of ... read more

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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