Laos: The Land that Time Forgot. No dinosaurs, though. Or Doug McClure.
November 25th 2006 From Cambodia, Dan and I took a speed boat to Laos which sounds exciting but, after sitting next to a noisy engine for an hour in a rather uncomfortable position, I was glad it was all over reasonably quickly. The rest of the speedboat crew contained two Danish guys, an English couple plus the token Aussie. For a short while we were stuck in international no-mans land as after the Cambodian border
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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 
