Quoting the (in)famous Walter Sobchak, there are rules to life, except when he was in Nam. It is still the same, there don't seem to be many rules here. But, I left off in Laos, so we'll go back there first... Vientiane is incredibly small for a capital city, and it is incredibly clean for being in one of the poorest countries in the world. I was surprised by the number of posh bars, the beautiful riverfront, and the clean streets (well most of them). However, the temples, pagodas, national museums reminded us we were still in the developing world. Pha That Luang is a golden pagoda that is on the Lao national seal, but it is in bad need of a paint job; the National History Museum had paper mache exhibits that looked like my
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