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Elephants

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June 24th 2009
So eventually we got our tickets for the slow boat and we had to pay 90,000kip whist Lao pay 50,000kip, nice. We embarked on our journey, now we have already done a slow boat down the Mekong through Vietnam and Cambodia ans so didn't expect it to be any different, but it was!! The main thing is, that laos is just jungle and forest out here and the Mekong is huge, wide and very powerful. We ... 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