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Kayaking Vang Vieng to Vientiane

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April 19th 2006
Ended up taking a primo kayaking trip to Vientiane instead of the standard 4 hr bus trip. We traveling on the back of a “jumbo” (tuk tuk/mini truck) for an hour with a pretty stiff Belg couple and a quite fella from Bangkok. Our guide, Pan, spoke all the way in his very broken English. Was pretty tiring having to make sense of a sentence when you only catch about 1 in very 5 words, but interes ... read more

Asia » Laos

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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