We were sat in guest house reception waiting to be picked up at 9:30AM and guy finally turned up at 10:30 (this is what people mean by Laos time) only to drive us around in a circle and drop us literally 2 mins down street from guest house. Crazy, could see the bus from the reception and if know it was ours could of walked there, oh well. Bus dropped us off in Vang Vieng at a guest house which driver must get commission for doing as right out the way a couple km...

We arrived at the border at 8am after a luxury sleepr bus whereby we were even treated to the film Iron Man (not very good by the way!). After formalities were completed we jumped onto another bus which was not so nice for the final 30 mins or so journey to the capital. We grabbed some breakfast with an Israeli guy (these guys are everywhere!!!) before locating a guest house. We had a wander around the area after this and just cannot believe how quiet this place...