Central Pakse

Not the most exciting place as you can see, mostly small shophouses and flanking the single highway that runs through. There must be something more to the place though, what with the rather luxurious hotels along the Mekong, and multiple banks and ATMs...

Pakse (6-8 Oct 12)

October 10th 2012
Hello Laos! And all it took was a 3h bus ride, half of it from Ubon to the Chong Mek-Vang Tao border, and the other half to Pakse, a relatively prosperous Laotian city located at the confluence of the Mekong and Se Don rivers in the Champasak province in Central Laos, and often used by tourists as a staging point to nearby attractions. The Laotian immigration counter at Vang Tao was somethin ... read more

Asia » Laos » South » Pakse

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

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