Children with Balloon

We took a motorbike tour around Battambang in Cambodia. My favorite thing was to go into the countryside and meet the people. So the next day I went out with the driver and bought 150 pens, books and balloons and he took me to the poorest villages where we had a lot of fun handing them out. In Cambodia the children have to pay for the education and for their books, not all children can attend school

the Border crossing from Thiland to Laos

April 10th 2007
So we crossed the border in the north of Thailand into Laos. I was so stressed as they kept telling us that we wouldn't be able to get a visa at the border and were trying to make us pay in Thai Baht as opposed to US Dollar, which would of been twice the price. Anyway they were putting a lot of pressure on us and I was already worried about the border crossings as you always have to pay a bit ext ... read more

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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

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