Wats, boats and ziplines: just your average week in Laos...

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January 25th 2008

Published: April 25th 2008

Laos: the most bombed country in the world. The forgotten victim of a war misleadingly known in the West as the Vietnam War, but more accurately described as the Indochinese War. Bombed to hell and left there by US forces intent on cutting off Ho Chi Minh and his North Vietnamese communist forces from their supply lines, despite the country being internationally recognised as neutral in the nei... Read Full Entry

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Elizabeth Weir

Weir travels

I decided in early 2006 that I'd had enough of the London rat-race and the career thing - at least, for the time being - and that I'd like to take some time out: "me time", as it were; time to do at least some of the things that I'd been thinking about doing over the last few years but hadn't been able to fit in around work and client demands. So here I am: backpack to the ready (to be honest, it had never really been put away after my '93-'94 round-the-world trip), and a gazillion ideas about how to fill the next xx months..... (And, no, I've no idea when I'll go back to the "real" worl... full info

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