Luang Prabang from Phou Si

The worst journey of my life!!

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October 27th 2006
I didn't think the journey from the Full Moon party to the Tiomen Islands could be bettered as the worst journey of my life. It has and my god it was bad!!! First we left Pai at 10 on the night. This was fine but I had decided that to celebrate United's easy victory over Liverpool which I watched in a bar full of Thai Liverpool fans so I'd had a few drinks and spent the first two hours crossing m ... 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