Chaing Mai Night Market

bargains, blind faith and beer laos

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April 5th 2006
Last night i tried three different internet cafes and none of them worked. tonight i've found a cafe with a reasonable connection, but the power's gone off twice (that's the whole of luang prabang, i've sent adam to fetch a torch so we won't have to find our way home by the light of the lightening from the impending storm), so this might be a bit abrupt. arrived in bangkok three hours late b ... 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