Historic trail set for tourist revival

Guy Nicholson says a long-lost stone roadway once linked the Laos ruins of Wat Phu Champasak with Cambodia's Angkor.

If it still existed today, it would be a cultural and historical superhighway comparable to the Inca Trail or the Silk Road, but the route was already long overgrown by the time the region's modern borders were drawn in the colonial era.

The revolutions of the 1970s closed temples and borders alike. Geography and security issues have long made it cumbersome and dangerous to visit these ruins as a united whole.

... When the infrastructure improves, there's every chance that tourist demand will resurrect the historic connection between Laos and Cambodia.

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