Viengxai Caves

26/11/10  We visited the Viengxai (meaning city of victory!) caves where the Pathet Lao Communist Party and many local people hid out during the bombing between 1964-73.  Our guide hid in the jungle with his family!

People tended their crops in the fields by night and hid in the caves in the surrounding karsts during the day. For 9 years! One story we heard was that the airforce was not given specific targets but to bomb where there were ducks and chickens.