Some people told me that it was essential to bring lots of food with you on the slow boat because they sold either bad food or overcharged you by a lot. So before I went to the docks I stopped at my street vendor again to buy three big baguettes for on the river. Upon arrival I boarded the boat and soon left cruising upstream on the river. There is not much to be said about the boat ride, except that it is boring as hell and seems to take ages. The boat had old ...

So I sat in the nightbus. It was just fine, like any other nightbus but this one had a bit more bumps in the road. At 05:30 in the morning I arrived at a town where I needed to change to a regular bus. When I arrived, a Vietnamese guy immediately asked if I was going to Luang Prabang and he dropped my big bag on the roof of his bus. The bus would leave at 07:00 so I strolled around to one of the shops to get some sandwiches for breakfast. At 07:00 the bus was fi...