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Laos Day 4

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January 30th 2013
Late breakfast and short walk to Wat Xieng Thong - built in 1560 and continued to remain under royal patronage until 1975. If anyone is doing, please don't worry about Rachel from Bolton - she's fine. We met her on the steps of the Wat and she directed us to a wild bar and restaurant on the other side of the Nam Khan River - a tributary of the Mekong. Way to get there was via a very wob ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Luang Prabang

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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