Laos really is a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively. From the moment we walked over the Thai border, we knew that we were in for a treat. The people were not hocking mass produced t-shirt’s at us, we were not being harassed to get into a Tuk Tuk, and the local beer, Beer Lao, wasn’t CRAP!!! We knew we were home, at least for a bit anyways. We began with a night in Vientiane, which is right over the Thai Laos border, it was a quaint town and we had our first taste of Laos coffee, which was AMAZING! When the French colonized Laos in the 19th century, not only did they leave their beautiful architecture and cobble stone walkways, but fields and fields of exquisite coffee; making the Thailand traveler whose closest thing
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