Barbecued Rat, Udomaxi Bus Station
That's what you want on a bus trip. Barbequed Rat on a stick. Is it any wonder with quick snacks like that that Laotian people are the worst travellers on the planet? Seriously, I have never seen so many people throwing up on a bus as I did on our journey from Luang Nam Tha to Pak Mong. They hang plastic bags from the ceiling - and boy, do they get well used! At one point we stopped so that EVERYONE except me, Vik and Susie (who watched with amusement) could go and be sick by the side of the road! Even the driver got out!
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 
