For my previous posts on this adventure, click http://lynntowin.ca/thailand-and-laos, http://lynntowin.ca/bangkok, and http://lynntowin.ca/chiang-mai What’s interesting about Laos? Laos is one of only five communist countries in world today. The others are China, Cuba, Vietnam, and North Korea. Although the US waged a secret war against Laos during its war with Vietnam, with the intent to stop the spread of communism, Laos has been a one-party communist state since 1975. During the war with Vietnam from 1964-1973, the US dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos. 270 million bombs. A third of those bombs did not explode, and continue to take the lives or body parts of locals who come…