Zip line

Tubing debauchery

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April 5th 2007
One word to decribe Vang Vieng and the river that flows through it: superfungnarlystokedness. As I was floating down a river the other day on a big black innertube, jumping off make-shift platforms and rope swings and zip lines doing nothing but having a killer time, I thought to myself there is no way life could get any better than this. I felt like I was a kid in Disneyland again, hanging ou ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vang Vieng

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Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more