River Bars

Tubing in Vang Vieng

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April 11th 2007
The next day, we said our good byes to the two Danish boys who were heading to Hanoi. The rest of us got on the bus to Vang Vieng a town five hours south. I was not planning on having much of a cultural experience here. I had been there before and knew the place was popular for renting tubes, to lazily carry you down the river. The town consists of about four small streets in a square and the riv ... 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