Laos: The stern of the launch ‘Ham Luong’ ready for transportation, photographed in 1893, in Khone South in Laos. Faced with the unsurpassable Khone mountain range that separated the lower from the middle Mekong, the French initiated in 1893 the construction of a 160-m bridge and a 7-km railway track to transfer launches between the two stretches of river. This improved exponentially trade and transport between Laos and Cambodia.

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