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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsLaos opens secret wartime cave cityclipped by: boozichclippers 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 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 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() the army cave 1000 soldiers lived in this room ![]() among the pathet lao caves ![]() bomb crater at the plain of jars, xieng khouang province, most heavily bombed part of lao ![]() 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 ![]() 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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