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So I’m back in Chi­ang Mai, the charm­ing lit­tle town that anchors north­ern Thai­land, but tomor­row I head fur­ther north, past Chi­ang Rai to Chi­ang Khong/​Huay Xai, where I’ll catch a “slow boat” down the Mekong to Luang Pra­bang, the royal cap­i­tal of the King­dom of Laos until the com­mu­nists swept through in 1975 and renamed the whole coun­try the Lao People’s Demo­c­ra­tic Repub­lic. I con­fess, I know next to noth­ing about Laos, but every­one says the place is beau­ti­ful and laid back. I do know they make a tasty beer there, and that the country’s short name, “Lao PDR” gen­er­ally means “Laos, Please Don’t Rush.”