Vientiane

After the 11pm curfew in town we ended up having a drink with this local man on the right who plied us with shots of who knows what. Apparantly it was 80% alcohol that he'd made himself - the guy on the left actually vomited all down himself after doing one shot, since he was a local and he couldn't handle it there was no way I was touching the stuff!!

Viva La Laos!

December 28th 2009
Ok.......so after sad goodbye to Vietnam we left Hanoi for Laos. All the sensible people booked flights while David, Tash, Pat and I climbed aboard the sleeper bus for probably one of the worse 24 hour bus journeys. It was fine until halfway more people got on the bus - I woke up on the floor in between the bunks with 2 people sitting in my bunk! Delirious, tearful and angry we had a hellish borde ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Luang Prabang

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

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