Everyone getting very wet

Very Very Wet in Vientiane

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April 17th 2008
Our journey began at 5.30pm when we were picked up from our Hanoi hotel and taken to the bus station, we were shown to a bus and sat down waiting for our departure. Three or four hours into the journey a massive thunderstorm began right above us and we spent the next hour admiring it through the grubby window of our bus. It took around 10 hours to get from Hanoi to the Laos border - we arrived at ... 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