Laos Cities: Packs

Packs – the most important market city and large border point, the largest city of South of Laos, his commercial and transport center.

The city is quite young – he was founded by the French in 1905 to control the major transport hub on Mekong (in these places the river reaches the largest width in all its length).

His sights include the temple of Wat Luang on the Sea-Don River Embankment, built by the last prince of Laos Palace Champasak (1974., Now there is a hotel here), a provincial museum with an excellent collection of decorative works of the Dangcore period, found around the city, the picturesque building of the Chinese community, as well as the Big Eastern Market, Public Park and Fish Farm on the Mekong River.

Reviews and studies of trips

Laos: Packs

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Juan | September 2016

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One of the four thousand Laos Islands

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