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[bomb shells outside wedding banquet hall]



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[just past Phonsavan Kindergarten]



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Piss stop just outside Thathom. This entire region was hell on earth half a century ago. Nowhere else has ever been bombed so mercilessly. The guy with the nice hat was our driver. He did a great job.



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This was just after Thathom. We stopped here so everyone could take a piss, au naturel, in the bush.

I was the only non-Lao on this minibus. People got on and off, but for more than half of this 8-hour trip, not counting an hour for lunch, I had two seats to myself.



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I'm pretty sure this was in Thabok, but if you can read the sign and it says something entirely different, please tell me. We had been on the road for a couple of hours, with a few brief stops to pick up passengers, so that's how I figure we were in Thabok.



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[mango vendors]



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North Station. The white mini-bus was the one I took. No great demand to go from Vientiane to Phonsavan.



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[North Station]



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[North Station]



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[North Station]



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[North Station]



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