Beer Lao brewery, Vientiane

Laos at last!!!

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February 3rd 2007
Cambodia to Laos Well I finally made some more time to update the blog, so here's what I've been up to over the past 3 weeks... Last time I wrote I was in Phnom Penh in Cambodia (the third time there within a month as it's a rather convenient travel hub). I travelled by bus up to Kratie (Krah-cheh) a few hundred km north, and spent a few days there - I hired a motorbike and with anoth ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vang Vieng

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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