Well we finally made it into Laos after our mammoth bus journey! And we are exhausted.After a ten-hour (and excessively bumpy...it appears the road is still being built) overnight sleeper-bus, arriving in Dien Bien Phu at four in the morning, we reluctantly hopped straight onto yet another bus to take us over the boarder and on to Muang Khua.  It's a picturesque route but we'd been warned not to make the trip in hops as you risk getting stranded part wa...