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The sunset on Don Khon

The local way

April 15th 2007
It was Tom’s idea to travel ‘the local way’. We’d taken advantage of the luxury VIP buses with large seats and air-con or the mini-buses which took us straight to our destination. The south of Laos, it was decided, was to be traveled via local buses and song thaw (basically a truck with 2 long seats) and motorbikes. This meant traveling not only with the Laos people, but with their livesto ... read more
Asia » Laos » South » Savannakhet

Lao or Laotian Flag 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
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