Vientiene

Just like any other Capital city - except it has bowling!

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August 20th 2006
What can I say? Vientiane was pretty much a small indistiguishable city - Sorry Laos. As with most captial cities - eg Canberra, Ottawa, Washington DC, there ain't much attraction to it unless you work within government administration, or need to deal with anything of any official nature. Don't get me wrong, you know how much I love beaurecracy, but even I struggled in this grey town. Andrew, mys ... 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