Hong Sa - The Elephant Festival!! (plus a macabre experience with 'the silence of the pigs')
February 17th 2007 We started our journey south from Luang Nam Tha with the goal of reaching the annual Elephant Festival (although this was the festival’s first year…) in Hong Sa and the prospect of an Elephant Festival filled us with a little too much excitement! We set off on a local bus with the intention of heading through a town called Udomxai and then another bus south to Pak Beng, a stopover town for tra
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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 
