2008/05/01

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Laos opens secret wartime cave city

clipped by: boozich
clippers remarks: Hidden deep inside the jungle-covered carst mountains of northern Laos lies a secret cave city where revolutionary leaders survived nearly a decade of US bombing during the Vietnam war

More than two million tonnes of bombs were dropped on Laos over the nine years, more than the amount that fell on all of Europe during World War II
Clip Source: news.sawf.org
VIENGXAY, Laos

communist country has opened up the remote wartime hideaway to tourism, hoping to bring development to this explosives-littered and dirt-poor part of the country




Clip Source: www.usatoday.com
People tour the Keysone Phomvihanes cave in Viengxay, Houaphanh province, Laos. The country has opened up to tourism a complex of caves which once sheltered communist guerrilla leaders from the most intense bombing campaign ever unleashed by the United States.
Clip Source: blogs.princeton.edu
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the army cave

1000 soldiers lived in this room

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among the pathet lao caves

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bomb crater at the plain of jars, xieng khouang province, most heavily bombed part of lao
Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Viengxay Valley, Laos, 2007
Clip Source: news.sawf.org
The picturesque landscape of limestone peaks and rice fields between 1964 and 1973 became the most heavily bombed place on earth as US jets targeted Pathet Lao fighters

Smaller caves connected by tunnels were the homes of Communist

with a Russian oxygen generating machine in case of a gas attack

Every eight to 10 minutes the American aircraft bombed, between 6am and 5pm

At 7pm they came back to fire rockets

People farmed only between 4am and 6am
Clip Source: www.scottasia.net


Shop and houses in Viengxay.



house constructed outside his cave



Underground theatre in the army cave.



Passages and bedroom inside the army cave.


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