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- <text id=93CT1754>
- <title>
- Laos--Travel
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--CIA Factbook
- Southeast Asia
- Laos
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>CIA World Factbook</source>
- <hdr>
- Travel
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Visitors can apply for visas at the Lao Embassy in
- Washington, DC. Although, in theory, tourist visas are
- temporarily "suspended" except for group travel, in practice
- individual visa applications have generally been approved on a
- case by case basis. Business travel is encouraged. US citizens
- of Lao origin have been able of late to obtain visas easily to
- visit family and have not experienced any particular difficulty
- in Laos. Several US journalists have been able to secure visas
- within the past year as well. Sponsorship by an individual or
- organization in Laos can ease the application process.
- </p>
- <p> Vientiane is served by four international airlines: Thai
- Airways, Air Vietnam, Lao Aviation, and Aeroflot (USSR). Flights
- connect Vientiane to Bangkok, Rangoon, Hanoi, and (via several
- stops) Moscow. Bangkok is the nearest city served by a US
- carrier.
- </p>
- <p>Source: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, May
- 1986.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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