Sabai sabai... Lovely Laos

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December 9th 2012
After crossing the Thai/Laos border we boarded a boat and spent the day cruising down the awesome Mekong river. Laos contrasts quite sharply with Thailand: it's actually one of the 20 poorest countries in the world, so seeing the local life along the river, where the villages are wooden and straw huts built around subsistence farming and fishing was really interesting. The Lao people are so fr ... read more

Asia » Laos

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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