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Trek to hilltribe villages

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October 11th 2012
On the way to the start of the trek we had a couple of sight seeing stops. The first stop was at an orchid nursery. It is not the season for orchids in the wild, that is early spring. In the nursery the orchids are grown commercially and they were all flowering. The second stop was to visit a cave combined with lunch. This was a more touristy cave than the caves near Vang Vieng, but Dong told stor ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more