Soaking celebrations

Sabaidee, Sok Di Pii Mai (Hello & Happy New Year)

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April 27th 2011
I took the SinhTourist bus to Savannakhet from Hue. Crossing into Laos from Vietnam at the Lao Bao crossing was reasonably quick given the need to get stamped out, sort out a visa on arrival to Laos and then go through passport control on the Laos side. It was the last of these that took the longest. I've seldom seen such a disorderly queue as the one at the window to get stamped into Laos, a ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

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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