Luang Prabang Night Market

Beer Lao, Lady, Beer Lao?

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January 28th 2007
For the last week or so we have been travelling around Laos, a country we both had little knowledge of before we arrived here. After our peaceful night train to Nong Khai we managed to negotiate our way into the town centre and then back out to the Thai-Laos Friendship bridge in order to make our crossing into Laos. Our tuk tuk driver initially took us to some dodgy office to try and get us to pay ... 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