Vang Vieng

A Lao Haircut

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November 30th 2006
I flew from Hanoi to Vientiane, an hour's flight on a knackered old Vientamese Airlines plane that saved us a potentially tortuous 24 hours on an even more knackered local bus and landed safely to meet Emily (again, that's the seventh time and counting) under the national monument, rather romantically, which resembles the Arc de Triomphe. Well, a dark grey concrete ugly version built from donated ... 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