Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang

Rolling on the river Lao Lao style (or not if your boat breaks down/runs out of fuel/the driver is MIA)

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March 14th 2013
Sabaidee from Luang Prabang! Apologies for the lack of blogging recently, Laos doesn't really do internet... So we left Thailand about 2 weeks ago, taking the slow boat along the Mekong from Houay Xay to Luang Prabang. The journey took 2 days, with a stopover in Pak Beng, where we had a rather surreal evening watching a Dutchman do some break dancing... The boat itself was pretty basic (alt ... read more

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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