Tribes

Laos Smiles Delight

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September 30th 2005
10 hours, 4 taxi rides and 2 buses but yet only 100km traveled was my first experience of a land boarder crossing outside Europe. China and Laos are two of only five communist states left in the world however there seems little coordination between. On reflection we should have perhaps researched the trip some more but we expected the track to be well trodden by westerners although as it turns out ... read more

Asia » Laos

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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