S....L....O....W boat down the Mekong to Luang Prabang
October 24th 2006 So, anyway, we left Thailand at the Chaing Khong/Xieng Kok border with Lao. The journey to the border was pretty easy on one of the local busses that travels between the town and Chaing Rai and a tuk tuk to the mighty Mekong River which divides Thailand from Lao.
The Thai border at Chiang Khong was a little sleepy kind of a place, there was a man asleep in a hamock, oh with a gun, and the im
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