The blog of journeys. We set out towards Vientiene the capital and as it was a 12 hour journey decided to stop half way in a place called Tha Khaek. As it turns out this was a good choice as the buses in Lao are even more ridiculous than we've seen so far. Pretty standard.. everyone eating eggs as snacks (shudder), 6 hours turned into 11 etc The only difference is that when you buy your ticket your also buying the ability to take ANYTHING and as much as you want...

Sabaydeeeeee from Lao! Why is it that all border crossing seems to turn into an absolute mission? We thought it was going to be so simple as we were staying only three hours from the border. Wrong. When we arrived apparently there was no bus for us so we had to wait around until one was available (for 3 hours) and then maybe pay more if there wasn't many people on it? Asian rules? Then we found out where we planned to go in Si Phan Don didnt have any cash points...