The one where the elephant sneezed (but didn't fall on her knees, phew)
October 30th 2006 After a few days of hanging about in Luang Prabang and staying in our $3 per night guesthouse - which was really fine and only smelt a little of dog - we decided to check out the local area so we booked a 3 day trekking/activity tour with a company called Tiger Tours. Whilst there are apparently tigers in Laos we weren't expecting to come across any of these, no instead we were off to walk, cycle
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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 
