Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
We decided to get the slow boat to Laos as we had heard great things and had the time. We left Pai at 6pm in a minivan and drove to the Thailand-Laos border, which should of taken 6 hours but took 8 with all the stop offs. We had a great group of people. Josh was from down the road and we knew some of the same people and Luke was a Leigh-on-sea boy; small world! We spent a night in a guesthouse and up at 7am for breakfast and to cross the border. Because it was a Saturday we had to pay $36 for our Laos visas. We had a bit of time to pick up some drink and baguettes for the 7 hour boat journey. We got a crate of 24 cans of beerLao for 240,000 kip, which was £20=£5 each. The baguettes we bought were really tasty and the bread wasn't sweet so we where happy.
Getting on the boat seemed more stressful than it needed to be as our guide told us we all had seats but we didn't. After half an hour of faffing and Josh slowly getting more stressed "money seats ticket??" we settled on the back of the boat with a group of 15 Brits. The boat trip descended into a 2 day booze cruise with a stop of in a shabby looking town, in a shabby crooked guesthouse but got a tasty drunken curry. The next day we paid for our average to very poor room and 4 baguettes, while luke and josh paid for their baguettes and cheekily left without paying for the room. We went back to the back of the boat and saved a space and did it all over again.
We had a great group of people on the boat, which made it fun. The scenery was also lovely and beerlao went down very easily. Fun times all round.
- comments