Benny freaking out in a leaky boat

We spent 5 hours in Vang Vieng walking through the jungle trying to find one of the local caves and ended up finding some crusty old ferryman who ferried us across the insanely fast-flowing river of death in a boat that was barely a plank of wood. Fun fun. Turned out you couldn't go any further than the entrance of the cave :S oh well... it's the journey, not the destination... right?

Short stop in the capital of nowhere

August 7th 2005
Vientiane!? What happens? There is nothing here! It's a street... with a couple of Tuk-tuks... and a restaurant or two... and that's...about...it! We're heading down to Si Pan Don- or the Four Thousand Islands tonight, which should be nice. It's near the Cambodian border where the Mekong is 14 KM WIDE, and is split up with... surprise surprise... Four Thousand Islands! (i think it's a lie, it does ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

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

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