Country Info
- Vientiane
- Capital
- Kip (LAK)
- Currency
- 5,635,967
- Population
- LA
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Xepon, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
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Sepon oder Xepon
... Grenzuebergang war mal wieder ein Highlight, wenn auch viel weniger dramatisch als die bisherigen. Von Dong Ha sind wir mit dem Bus nach Lao Bao an der laotischen Grenze. Die Buspreise haben wir am Tag zuvor abgeklaert und mussten feststellen, dass alle ...
Spirits and Ghosts
... by guessing wrong so they would just go away. Immediately after I arrived in Sepon (pronounced Say-pone, but spelled Sepone, Sepon, Xepon, or Xepone), I was warned about the spirits again by my project staff. They suggested I sleep with a knife near the ...
Ho Chi Minh Trail
... bus and weren't making a mistake. Some people seemed quite concerned. Of course, this meant crawling along with our packs. Xepon is nothing more than a village with a market place. The market has no character, with countless stalls selling spare parts ...
Pictures
Sorry I've been so lax in updating. Things with work have been busy in both Sepon and Vientiane. In Vientiane I've also made some friends and already have a very active social life. Here are some pictures along with a few stories to show you a bit of ...
Off to Vietnam - well, nearly ...
... Pon river and spot a lone standing bridge column in the river I guess from a bombed out predecessor. The original village of Xepon was bombed flat during the Vietnam war standing as it did on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and only a few fragments ...
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