Life on the Mekong
July 4th 2006 I took the bus to Chiang Khong located along the nothern Thai/Laos border. It's a small little town right on the Mekong. My friend Thomas decided at the last minute to come meet me and do the slow boat to Laos. We took a ferry across the river to the Laos side and got our visas on arrival. It's usually $30 but since it was Sunday it was $31, clever ways for the corrupt government to get more mo
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