Bike ride in Vientiane

Laos and the Mekong River

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October 29th 2007
Our last night in Chiang Mai was in a beautiful wood guess house but basic it was! Our sheets lookedlike they had seen better days and we had to pour a bucket of water down the loo to flush it. Out shower was also positioned above the toilet. Oh well at least we could have killed two birds with one stone (shit, shave and shower :-) In the morning we crossed the Mekong river from the Thai border ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Luang Prabang

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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