Scenery inLaos

"Kwap Jai" - Thank you in Laos (sounds like cubchai)

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February 16th 2011
If a picture paints a thousand words does that mean if I take 100 pictures I will have 100,000 words? Because that is about how many words I need to tell of the beautiful, peaceful, scerene and mostly uninhabited country called Laos. Of the approximately 6 million people who call this land "home", most are subsistent farmers. They live off what the land and the good Lord provides. There are a ... read more

Asia » Laos » South

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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