Our Ride

How to Enter Laos And Reasons You Shouldn't

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January 9th 2009
We spent the night in Nong Khai at the Sawadee Guesthouse. A room with TV and A/C ran 400 Baht. We talked with a Brit who was motorcycling his way from Britain to Indonesia. Nice guy who told us that the strangest place he had been through was Afghanistan. We couldn't imagine anyone doing that area of the world solo but then again he was a big guy. The next morning we took a Tuk Tuk to the ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

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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