Ok, instead of some witty or poignant beginning to this blog we're simply going to lay it out there and say.... WE! LOVE! LAOS! After ten months of amazing adventures and wonderful people, our time in Laos has been three of the best weeks ever. It is a country that right now and for a few more years, is at that perfect moment in history, the moment that foreigners living in today's Thailand, Prague or The Costa Del Sol would whistfully call "The Good Old Days". The irony is, by writing this we are also helping to advance mass tourism, but with a country so lovely, yet so desperately poor, it's hard to stay quiet. What A Difference A Border Makes From Hanoi we "endured" a long and predictably unfriendly bus ride to Laos. The Vietnamese
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