Two days of boat on the Mekong. That's what it took to reach the city of Luang Prabang from Huay Xai, our departing point Laos after crossing the Thai border in the northwest of the country. The Mekong River, which originates in Tibet, is the third in Asia and the eighth in the world in term of length. He traveled some 4500 km and successively through China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, where his famous delta results in the South China Sea. The economic importance of a river of this size hardly explains the presence, on its course, of several major cities of Southeast Asia, such as Vientiane, Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Luang Prabang, in its the prestigious past, is no exception. Capital of the Kingdom of Lan Xang (Million Elephants) in the
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