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Do I Need to Have a Permanent Address?

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November 26th 2007
Laos time is similar to what one friend once coined as “Jewish Standard Time”…it means whatever the time stated it doesn’t hold. So when we are told the boat departs at 11AM and it doesn’t leave til noon that is expected - we were waiting for the backpackers to cross the border and make their way to the boats. The slow boat ride from Huay Xai to Luang Prabang takes two days with a stop ... 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