Vientiane is such a little capital...I would say more like a provincial town. They are in the process of finishing the boardwalk by the Mekong. People are nice and generally not pushy at all. We are relaxing: little shopping, little visit to the look alike Arc de Triumph, and little restaurants. Actually Lao cuisine is really our top choice so far in the trip. We went to this restaurant were they train street kids in the restaurant business, the food was great and the program very successful. So many things need to be done in this country in terms of taking care of their own. There seem to be still a large French community, French presence in Laos was smooth colonization, it was very strategic from the French to keep the Laotian happy.
This is a part of the world you don't really flash your US passport. There are still a lot of unexploded mines in Laos that are still responsible for missing limbs.
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