In the past Laos hasn’t been the first South-East Asian that has
sprung to backpackers’ minds as a place to visit. Thailand was
always the country in that part of the world which travellers
went straight to. Thanks to this its neighbours have benefited,
and Laos is one of them. Over the last number of centuries Laos
has been used to being under rule from other countries. In the
past Thai, Vietnamese and Siamese conquerors have ruled South-
East Asia’s least developed country and it wasn’t until 1890
that the country developed national boundaries when it was under
French rule. It suffered slightly from the Vietnam War as the
North Vietnamese Army took base in the Northern Laos at the
time. The US Army bombed the area as a result. Around the same
time, after six centuries of rule under a monarch, Laos finally
became a Democratic Republic in 1975. Many weren’t happy with
this change and fled to either Thailand or America. Laos is one
of the poorest countries in the world. It’s most important
industry is agricultu