We travelled down to Vientiene, the capital city of Laos, in a group of 7 - Charlie, Nicky, Allen, Lindsay, Cecilia, Em and I. Vientiene is not what I expected for the capital (and easily the biggest) city in Laos: quiet, unexciting, expensive and not much to it really. I guess it is still developing though as there was construction everywhere. We arranged to meet up with the others later and Em and I set off for Pha That Luang, which is this massive golden centre piece to the city - it is in fact a religious statue. It was pretty cool, gleaming in the late afternoon sun, although we were too late to go inside. There were also some neat temple buildings around it. Actually on the way there we passed Patuxai which is a
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