Mudwrestling

Vang Vieng

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December 15th 2008
Buses in Laos are privately owned and run. Our guesthouse sold us the tickets at the same price as everywhere else charged. We left at 2pm on a truck, changed trucks 50m up the road to a second truck. Stopped 50m further up the road to move to a minibus (all of our bags being tied to the roof) to then head to the bus station at 3pm! We arrived late and the bus had left. After several phon ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vang Vieng

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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