Breakfast looking out over the river

Lovely Louang Prabang (except the bed bugs!)

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November 20th 2009
Hi all, Thanks for all your lovely messages, its really good to hear from you all. It feels like we've had an eventful time since last writing. We crossed the Thai border and took the slow boat down the Mekong river for 2 days to Louang prabang, it was a lovely way to travel becasue of the scenery howeverthe overnight stop wasn't great, we arrived in the dark & had to drag our luggage up a rocky ... 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