Wat Khilli

This is the only surviving temple in Laos built in the Xieng Khuang Style as all were destroyed in the US bombing raids in the Vietnam War.

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Luang Prabang

June 24th 2007
Luang Prabang is a very beautiful city surrounded by green mountains and clay coloured waters. The whole city was listed as a world heritage site since 1995 by UNESCO. Consequently it gets a lot of tourists and you can see by the amount of guesthouses being built that those numbers will only increase over the years to come. We spent four days here and really didn’t do a great deal as we were f ... 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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