Vientiane

New Years Eve in Vientiane

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January 2nd 2010
We arrived in Vientiane sleepy, and got a jumbo (like a big tuk tuk acting as a local bus in cities) to the central square of Vientiane at about 6am or so....and it was asleep! We soon got the feeling Vientiane was going to be very relaxing! A wander around hotels and we finally found one which had rooms and was suitably nice, treating ourselves to a far more expensive room than we are used to ( ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

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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