Luang Prabang

First week in Lao

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March 19th 2008
Lao or bust Welcome to our blog. As you would expect we had a few technical hitches getting on to our blog, but all appears fine now. We are in Luang Prabang and settled in very nicely. Our hotel is right across the road from a Buddhist wat, as they call them here, and the monks come past at 6.15am each morning after a wake-up call from a very large drum. During the first week here t ... 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