Fishing in Luang Prabang

It's rather expensive in this town....and up the Mekong

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January 8th 2009
8th January 2009 (Thursday): Luang Prabang: Went to go Wat hunting today but soon realised that we were still really sick of Wats! We went over a little bamboo bridge and sat on a rock watching a man fishing with a net. We went to Wat Xieng Thong which was nice. The decor was slightly different to that of other Wats we'd visited but still, we'd had enough so didn't go to any more. Spent the rest ... 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