Packing

It is an art packing a car, packing a bus however, is even harder, so we were always impressed with how many motorbikes, tables, chests, chairs, plastic bags, suitcases, backpacks and birds they could fit on the roof of a Lao bus

Muang Ngoi - Nong Khiaw - Luang Prabang - Vientiane: The way back down to civilization, and onwards to our next chapter...

January 26th 2013
We had, for the first time during this trip, booked onward transport (our five-day train ride to Singapore), so we had to be in Vientiane by the 26th. We realize in retrospect we could have avoided backtracking, although the thought of being on any bus ride for more than 12 hours (thus being able to visit more of Laos, but having then to take the bus from Luang Prabang to Bangkok, a whopping 23 ho ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

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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