Tubing Team

Week 5-6- Laos

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January 27th 2013
The thing that first hits you as you arrive in Laos is the calm. Travelling in from Bangkok, a chlosteraphobic, bustling city of crazed tuk tuk drivers, transexual prostitues and men on each street corner asking you over and over if you'd like to buy a suit, the tranquility of the capital, Vientiane, from the people, to the attitudes, to the traffic soothes you as you lounge in streetside cafe ... read more

Asia » Laos » North

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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