WHEREVER YOU WALK, history leaves the biggest footprint. Not just in books and museums; In the faces you see, the food you eat, the places you go to, the atmosphere that surrounds you when you walk down the street. Some places are immutably changed, uplifted and transformed, evolved and progressed by the passage of history. Elsewhere, there are places that seem glad simply to seek some sort of equilibrium between its peaks and troughs. Vientiane is one of those kinds of places. UPDATE 16-10-2002 Seeing as I've just made a return trip to the place, now would be a good time to update this ...
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