Market Luang Prabang

Laos

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June 18th 2006
You will all be delighted to hear we arrived safely in Luang Prabang courtesy of Lao Airlines, despite the questionable safety record. Lao PDR (Peoples Democratic Republic) is best known as the most heavily bombed country per capita in the history of warfare - the US dropped on average one planeload of bombs every eight minutes around the clock for nine years. As our guidebook correctly desc ... read more

Asia » Laos

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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