opening the 5th BeerLao of the morning!

The lovely Laos at last!

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May 2nd 2009
We crossed the river in about two seconds and then filled out some long winded forms to enter Laos and paid our money and handed over our dreadful out of date mug shots. After this we were loaded into a van type thing and were driven up to the river and given the hard sell on why it was better to take a bus than get the boat (If there were more than 80 on the boat they would have to take two and i ... 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