Suzi blogging on the boat

Nong Khiaw Adventures

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February 8th 2012
We left the beautiful city of Luang Prabang on Wednesday, February 8th and caught a 9AM Lao-style slow boat to a village up north called Nong Khiaw. We were very lucky as there were ten tickets sold for the boat so the first 8 people were crammed into one boat.<span> We had ticket number 9 and 10 and had another boat all to ourselves! The trip to Nong Khiaw itself should be a s ... 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