Waterfall

Bowled over on the Bolaven Plateau

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August 7th 2007
Day 129 We left the lovely Don Det on a small boat back to the mainland at 9am so we could catch the 10am local bus to Pakse. We arrived into Ban Nakaseng at about 9.15 and were taken to the bus station to wait for our bus. We had had the option to take the local bus (or songthaew which is actually a truck with covered benches in the trailer section) or the VIP bus, a snazzy air-conditioned coa ... 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