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Journey to Vientiane

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July 3rd 2006
When I started writing this blog I never once expected that a single bus journey would be worthy of it's own post but I have been proven wrong. I wasn't greatly looking forward to the 22 hour bus journey to Laos as you might expect but I didn't expect it to be quite as horrendous as it was. To start we were picked up half an hour late by a taxi when we were expecting to get straight onto a bus ... 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