I was a Millionaire and all I've got to show for it is this lousy t-shirt

1 Euro gets you a whopping 12,000 kip. I wasted little time becoming a millionaire. It also felt powerful carrying a stack of notes 1 1/2 inches thick. I reckon something must have gone very wrong for Laos inflation-wise in the past 10 years. The Lonely Planet I was using was from 1997. All the prices quoted in the book are roughly 1/40 of what they are now.