Loation Sensation II - Been There, Don Det, Bought the (Beer Lao) T-Shirt
November 20th 2006 Apologies for the increasing length of our blogs, this one will be short as we have been doing NOTHING for the last week!!!
We left Ubon Ratchathan, shunning the V.I.P. bus in favour of a cheaper ‘local option’ involving the old Bob Marley and the Wailers tour bus (see pic of G writing previous blog) followed by a ute-cum-tuk tuk that could fit 45 people at a squeeze, which they proved. We c
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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 
