Laos: Vientiane - 1893 -1975

A first impression of Vientiane is of a sleepy, backwater city set on a bend in the Mekong River....... True..... Dig a little deeper, though, and you will find Vientiane has undergone many changes...... No better illustration of these changes than a look a her rich architectural heritage. Here I look at the French Colonial period to 1975.

[@nangrahim1304]

Laos c'est mon pays tres beau pays, j'ai quitté le laos en 1975, a cette époque j'avais 22ans, merci pour cette vidéo qui fait partie de mes préféré et sublimes video, merci, je vous envoie mes salutations les plus sincères

[@BRUCECRUZ]

Very nice educating video. For most of us here in the states that were too young to know our history of Lao, we really appreciation you ( Nigel) for uploading this video and sharing it with us.

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

Thank you. You are most welcome!

[@samlansdown5216]

Thank you for creating these videos Nigel. It's great to be taken around all these fantastic buildings with your knowledge. I really hope some of the buildings will stay in the future.

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

Thanks for your visit and great comment, Sam! Looking back at this video, again, I see so many changes in the past 6 or seven years... huge shopping complexes, vast hotels and commercial buildings. I have also seen the creation of a park facing the Mekong River, improvements and restoration of several old colonial buildings and the neglect of others..... I was on the Patuxai (Victory Monument) yesterday and sadly it is in a bad state of repair.....

[@onemala4620]

Thank you for your sharing and old history in the past to current ADM....Please Appreciated and Great Film...

[@boonbanrasavong2654]

Thank you keeping Vientiane history to our lao people and people whom interesting Laos.

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

You are most welcome. Thank you.

[@yulksizz9687]

Thnks for sharing

[@BRUCECRUZ]

Just visited Laos this past March for the first time after I left 35 years ago. Missed it dearly already but plan to go back shortly.

[@MS-ql8ek]

I go visit 2 times a year, laos has lots of potential and will become much bigger if there was no communism

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

@maichandara
Thank you so much for your comment, I really appreciate it, too....
Since my first visit to Loas nearly eighteen months ago, numerous visits and now living here on a sort of semi- permanent basis, I have come to love Laos, Vientiane, her people and her great river..... I have also posted 16 movies to UA-cam as well as the one you have watched.....!! Best wishes. Nigel

[@hussainiyazhaneef7235]

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[@donbrashsux]

Beautiful Laos .. I Love ..

[@maichandara]

Thank you to came to visit my country, so you are making me missing my country.

[@goneysangullies]

Still a well crafted, interesting video. Thank you Nigel

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

Thanks a lot, Tom.

[@nungnung285]

I love Laos 🇱🇦

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

@ThePolsna72 Thank you for watching. I really enjoy living here now for three years. The city is changing and there is much new building development taking place.

[@slobomotion]

Uprated and shared. Greetings from France via the USA.

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

@slobomotion
Many thanks for your message. Greetings from an Englishman in Laos

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

Thank you. Nigel

[@sinreaksmeysin3810]

lao is simple but beauty

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

Thank you.

[@redmi9a557]

Beautiful temples

[@satitsatit1218]

My country but I dont even know about some of these

[@Petelaosound]

Awesome job

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

Thank you so much Pete. You are most welcome! Warm greetings! Nigel

[@ThongvanNonsithanh]

nice.
thanks.

[@user-ji2vj7xr1t]

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[@Samlongsattrakoune1]

i was living in lao since i was born in lao with my poor family farm parent till i 25 years old and left my country for u s but i staying in u s longer then my own country and i still miss my homeland and my poor sister and brother in lao there if when i get to 62 years old i ll my retirement to living in lao might be forever to staying in lao there and to pay my visa for every two months for 35 dollors or high then that

[@mickmick5436]

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[@suphakrittiposod9790]

nice vdo

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

Thank you

[@joyxamjoy6773]

I love to go back Laos forever if no craģ...

[@user-up6vm6oh8b]

2021

[@costiniucmircea]

Compared interesting old / new

[@Samlongsattrakoune1]

but lao got good beer and good cigaret and good coffee the best in the world of three thing for me after i retirement from u s to bring u s mony for my three lover favour cigaret lao beer or lao coffee and then make me so glad for living there with my abit mony retirement and enjoy life untill i dying there and paying for my visa for every two moths untill i dying that is my future after retirement enjoy life befor dying that all

[@redmi9a557]

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[@albertlenot5307]

Laos was never French colonization; under French protectorate yes !!!