The Mekong at dawn

December 9th 2007
So we decided to take the slow boat from Chiang Mai to Luang Prabang in Northern Laos. (A) it was cheap and (B) it was/is supposedly an "experience". I have learned since arriving in Asia that the word 'experience' does not necessarily mean 'enjoyable'... We departed Chiang Mai in a minivan the morning of the 9th and spent that night in a small town just on the Laos border. It turns out that th ... 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

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Lisa S.

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OK, so we have booked and paid for the Round-The-World tickets and our first stop is Delhi, India. We're going to head north to Uttaranchal before embarking on the "golden triangle" of Delhi/Jaipur & Agra. Then it's east through Varanasi (with a possible detour up to Nepal...??) to Kolkata. Than North again to Darjeerling and back south through the Sunderbans and Orissa. Finally we'll head west to Goa, via Hampi, and fly onwards out of Mumbai.................. From there the plan is to take in a lot of SE.Asia (most especially The Philippines & Borneo!) but where we'll actually end up is ... full info

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