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Mekong — one of the greatest rivers of Asia and the biggest river of Indochina — extends from Tibet to the South China Sea.
Around the Laotian-Cambodian border during the rainy season, Mekong spreads on 14 kilometers, forming currents, rifts and falls. Rocks, islands and islets stick out of the water.
The biggest of them — Don Det Island. It is also the largest tourist center of the region. Here, there are hotels and guesthouses, restaurants and cafes. From here, the tourist routes to the largest waterfalls begin.
People lived on the banks of the Mekong River since ancient times. They grew rice, founded cities, built monasteries and temples.
The ancient Buddhist temple Wat Poh was founded in the 5th century AD. Not much remained until our days, from this monastery that was once a large one.
The capital of Laos isn't among the tourist destinations. The Buddhist temples are here. But they are not museum like, that interests only the tourists, but alive. Local people, the majority of who consider themselves Buddhists, come here to pray and to talk to the monks, bring donations and flowers.
To Vang Vieng, the fans of active travel are attracted by the rocks of bizarre shapes, and the numerous karst caves in its suburbs.
Luang Prabang — the city of monasteries and temples. The most touristic city of Laos. Almost all the houses in downtown are reconstructed into hotels and guesthouses, cafes and restaurants. And the central street turned into a large souvenir market, under the open sky.
Laotian Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Laotian Civil War
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The Laotian Civil War (1959–75) was fought between the Communist Pathet Lao (including many North Vietnamese of Lao ancestry) and the Royal Lao Government, with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. It is called the Secret War among the CIA Special Activities Division and Hmong veterans of the conflict.The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theatre for other belligerents during the Vietnam War. The Franco–Lao Treaty of Amity and Association (signed 22 October 1953) transferred remaining French powers to the Royal Lao Government (except control of military affairs), establishing Laos as an independent member of the French Union. However, this government did not include representatives from the Lao Issara anti-colonial armed nationalist movement.The following years were marked by a rivalry between the neutralists under Prince Souvanna Phouma, the right wing under Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, and the left-wing Lao Patriotic Front under Prince Souphanouvong and half-Vietnamese future Prime Minister Kaysone Phomvihane. Several attempts were made to establish coalition governments, and a tri-coalition government was finally seated in Vientiane.
The actual fighting in Laos involved the North Vietnamese Army, U.S. troops and Thai forces and South Vietnamese army forces directly and through irregular proxies in a struggle for control over the Laotian Panhandle. The North Vietnamese Army occupied the area to use for its Ho Chi Minh Trail supply corridor and as staging area for offensives into South Vietnam. There was a second major theater of action on and near the northern Plain of Jars.
The North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao eventually emerged victorious in 1975, as part of the general communist victory in all of former French Indochina that year. A total of up to 300,000 people from Laos fled to neighboring Thailand following the Pathet Lao takeover.After the communists took power in Laos, Hmong rebels fought the new government. The Hmong were persecuted as traitors and lackeys of the Americans, with the government and its Vietnamese allies carrying out human rights abuses against Hmong civilians. The incipient conflict between Vietnam and China also played a role with Hmong rebels being accused of receiving support from China. Over 40,000 people died in the conflict.The Lao royal family were arrested by the Pathet Lao after the war and sent to labor camps, where most of them died in the late 1970s and 1980s, including King Savang Vatthana, Queen Khamphoui, and Crown Prince Vong Savang.
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