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Luang Namtha

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September 21st 2012
So today was my last day in China. With nostalgia I took photographs of the shop signs just as I did when i first arrived in China all those days ago in Kashgar. This part of China is so different from Kashgar that it might seem foreign to a Kashgar citizen. The border crossing to Laos was very smooth. The first thing that struck me was that everything in the town here is in English. Western touri ... 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