Laos -- the great unknown
February 20th 2008 We arrived in Laos yesterday and we really like it so far. Bangkok is OK but we have been there so many times that when we found out that we would have to wait another 2 days in Thailand for our Vietnam visa we decided to fly out to Laos and get the visa here. We are in Vientiane -- from the air it really looks like a small town with rivers and jungle around it -- and it is a small and peaceful to
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