Central Market, Pakse

Check out the little Motorbikes with side car things in the foreground. We went on one of those to get to Pakse bus station.Both of us and our luggage were piled into one of them. The driver was a grumpy sod (a rarity in Laos) and wouldn't take us the whole way as he thought his bike would break. Clearly he'd been a little over ambitious when he stopped to offer us a lift.

Entering the Fuggy Haze

October 1st 2008
Bangkok - Pakse - Don Khong - Don Khon - Pakse - Attapeu As I retrieved Vik’s rucksack from an overly confident tuk-tuk drivers vehicle I banged my head on a typically well positioned and unfeasibly rusty Laos road sign. There was an audible “oooo” from the group of drivers who surrounded us. “Happens to me all the time; that was nothing - in Scotland we put barbs on the signs so yo ... 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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