Views from a cave.

Laos begins with mudslides, rats on sticks and boat races.

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August 27th 2008
It all starts with a bus journey… the choices of the traveller, 2 days on a slow boat or 1 day on a bus?! We chose the later, for better or worse! 28 hours later and a few hundred miles from the Thai border we arrive at a bus station in Luan Probang. The 28 hour bus journey was hard work but we met lots of fellow traveller’s mainly as a westerner we were all shoved to the back of the coach b ... 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