Vientiane
January 5th 2011 And onwards to Vientiane.
It’s quite a culture shock to return to a big city after the villages and market towns of rural Laos. We’re not talking London or New York here but some differences are immediately apparent. There is more traffic and a fair number of private cars: elsewhere it’s been mostly vans, tractors, jeeps and mopeds. The driving is more aggressive – OK, not Rome, but ther
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