View towards my guesthouse

Luang Prabang

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January 5th 2012
The minbus dropped us off at their station on the edge of Luang Prabang and from there we took a tuk tuk to a guesthouse on the eastern side of town. I decided to take the room for $10 a night, put my bag down and took a walk to the old town about 500 metres away. At first I was quite overwhelmed by the amount of tourists in town but I guess it is high season and that Luang Prabang is world renown ... 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