The Nam Song river our farm is on, and tubers float along

Laos enviroMentalist adventures... Vang Vieng and Tha Khek

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September 12th 2008
After long, hot and tiring but a very very fun day of bike riding in the countryside and local markets of Luang Prubang, talking with local teenagers to improve their English at the Big Brother Mouse book publishing place and waking up at 5am to give alms to the young monks, (basically we kneel before the precession and place breakfasts of balls of sticky rice and bananas in their baskets as they ... 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