Laos. Don't Forget Your Passport
Description
Join host Gordon Sivell as he explores northern Laos with a long-tail boat ride down the Mekong River to some ancient Buddhist caves. He tours the old French colonial town of Luang Prabang before traveling southeast for 10 hours through dangerous, rebel-infested Hmong villages to the isolated town of Ponsavan. Gordon learns how the CIA conducted their secret war in the 1970s across the Plain of Jars on the border of Vietnam.
Runtime
48 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2006
Database
Films on Demand
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