Time to get out of Bangkok for the weekend. Thursday afternoon book a cheap ticket with Nok Air and on the plane Saturday. The KLX is currently sitting at a friends place in Nong Khai waiting for me. 4:00 am wake up and 5.50 flight to Udon and on the road around 10 am by the time pump up…
Introduction Lima Site 85 (LS-85 alphanumeric code of the phonetic 1st letter used to conceal this covert operation) was a clandestine, military installation in the Royal Kingdom of Laos guarded by the Hmong “Secret Army“, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the United States Air Force used for Vietnam War covert operations against communist targets in ostensibly neutral Laos under…
The largest bomb crater site in the province. Located at Baan Khai approximately 33 kilometres from Phonsavan. The bombs were dropped back in the second Indochina war by B 52 Bombers. In many cases indiscriminately on the way back from a bombing run or part of the carpet bombing of the Plain of Jars as both sides fought over…