Pakse Southern Bus Terminal

Pakse (6-8 Oct 12)

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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

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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