Laos: Rice farmers drive a caravan of pack oxen near the Lao-Sino border in 1896.

Pack oxen were the prime mode of transport at the time and facilitated trade around Laos, southern China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma. Each of the baskets on the packsaddles could carry 20 kg of paddy.

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