Vientiane and Vang Vieng
November 30th 2006 We arrived in Vientiane, Laos' capital. This small, peaceful place was far from our expectation of a capital city. Its sparse population represented the country as a whole: Laos has six million inhabitants compared to the similar-sized Vietnam with around eighty-two million!
Laos is one of the least visited south-east Asian countries, having only recently opened its borders. This followed a tumu
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