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Phonsavan - Bamboozled-By-Brothels

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October 22nd 2015
I've always said to Steve that we shouldn't go to places we can't pronounce but that would mean that a lot of places would never get visited! We've struggled a bit with Laos - no-one understood our version (Layoss) but we adapted to Louse (as in hair nits) and it got better. I thought we might be OK with Phonsavan (well, the emphasis might be a bit dodgy but apart from that ...) but no. It seems t ... 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