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The Gibbon Experience

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November 30th 2006
The Gibbon Experience was amazing!! For anyone who is planning on comming this way, it's someting you don't want to miss. It's even worth comming all the way to Asia just to do. On the first day we got picked up in a truck at about 8:00 am and took the truck, which had 9 people in it. It chugged up the mountain for about 3 hours where we got to the village at the base. After that it was 1.5 hour h ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Ban Houayxay

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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