Landlocked: The China to Laos Railway (short documentary)
Welcome to Laos, a small country of 7.2 million people in South East Asia.
Laos is landlocked, meaning it doesn’t have any access to the sea. It’s surrounded on all sides by Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and of course China to the north.
That geographical difficulty, and the fact that Laos is littered with 80 million unexploded bombs dropped by the US from 1964 to 1973, has stymied the country’s ability to develop, leaving it one of the poorest countries in the region.
The tide has started to turn in Laos’ favor, though, after China helped build the county’s first railway, connecting its capital city, Vientiane, with Kunming in southern China’s Yunnan province.
That’s where I got on-board, eager to visit Laos for the first time and find out how this railway has changed the lives of locals, and started transforming Laos from landlocked, to land-linked.
All up, we’ll take a journey of 1,000 kilometers through gorgeous, wild terrain and bomb-littered wasteland, m
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