A tough bargain

The long journey....to laos.

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February 27th 2007
I might have been at my limit had we traveled any longer. I was pretty certain that my clothes had become so stiff with dust and dirt that they would mold to my body and I, in fact, would not be able to take them off, and that my teeth were begining to rot like the 5 year old who shared with us the back of his mother's pick-up truck. I became convinced that my next meals would consist only of t ... read more

Asia » Laos » West » Vientiane

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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