View from Phousi

made in Laos

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August 19th 2007
We've spent quite a while here now. Not as long as your average two-weeks-in-the-sun break, but the longest I think we've stayed put and relaxed anywhere thus far. I really like many things about Luang Prabang, and would heartily reccomend it to other people - but not too many as even since we've arrived here it seems to be filling up with more tourists everyday. I know I'm a big fat hypocritic ... 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