Sabai sabai... Lovely Laos
December 9th 2012 After crossing the Thai/Laos border we boarded a boat and spent the day cruising down the awesome Mekong river. Laos contrasts quite sharply with Thailand: it's actually one of the 20 poorest countries in the world, so seeing the local life along the river, where the villages are wooden and straw huts built around subsistence farming and fishing was really interesting. The Lao people are so fr
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