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La haut au Laos
... semblent tres addicts : la petang. Cela consiste a lancer une grosse bille sur un terrain plat en terre ou en gravier. Puis chacun son tour les pratiquants lancent un boule d'acier en essayant de s'approcher le plus pres possible de la bille. Si l'un d'entre eux est trop pres son adversaire lance sa boule tres tres fort et le degomme. Cela a l'air tres amusant. J'aurais bien aime jouer mais il sont vraiment super balaise, j'avais l'impression ...
Laos – Vientiane
... Chi Minh trail) and was therefore secretly bombarded by the USA. More than half a million bombing missions were conducted i.e. in average of 1 mission every 8 minutes (24/7) for 9 years. Basically nearly the same amount of bombs in tons was dropped in Laos at that time than in the whole of Europe by all sides during WW2. How this could remain a secret in the West is hard to understand.
Around 80 million cluster bombs out of 270 million dropped did ...
Laos: part 1
... that. But again, it was a $8 cab ride. I'm not complaining. The Lonely Planet guide even has an "Idiots Guide" to the transportation system here, how the costs are calculated ( by distance and again, different for locals), how and when haggling is appropriate, etc. It took a bit of time to find our hotel because the driver was given the wrong hotel name and we end up on the far side of town initially. Our hotel is set back behind some other buildings along a dirt road lining ...
Vientiane - The capital of Laos
... extra-visa-extention they had to travel to Laos. They were travelling a lot in Asia and gave us the tip to make for sure a trip to the Philippines - we will see if we manage to do that LOL.
Arrived at the end station, the four of us took a Tuk-Tuk to the nearby border. The border crossing was easy for a charge of $ 35, all was done after 30 min. From the border, we took a taxi with the boys, 20 km ...
Welcome to Laos
... that theirs would be the first private business to operate in the communist country.
For the first years, Dawit described rowing across the broad Mekong River to Thailand, because Thailand had banks that could handle cash. The only fax in the city was at the post office, as it was seen as a dangerous machine that could send secrets abroad. Dawit and Carol searched for weavers who had learned at the ...