Day 1016 – Vang Vieng - Vientiane, Laos
Day 1016 – 19th March 2008 +7:00 GMT
Had a free breakfast at the guesthouse then checked out and got a tuk tuk to the bus station. Arrived at the bus just after 9:30am, this is is 10am VIP Express bus to Vientiane. We boarded the bus and waited for it to leave and waited and waited, although it was full before 10am the driver thought he would sit around and chat to his colleagues before leaving. The bus finally left at a couple of minutes to 11. Then 200 hundred yards down the road it pulls into a petrol station and fills up. The bus was old with hardly any air-con no toilets on board and non stop til it gets to Vientiane. I have realised that in Laos the VIP service which is three times the cost of the normal bus means it has wheels and usual has petrol in it. I would love to know what the public buses are like. We eventually arrived in Vientiane just after 2pm after sitting on a bus for 4 ½ hours and travelled a total of 93 miles and these were not even windy mountain roads. We got a taxi to our guest house and checked into Mali Namphu guest house. The staff are very friendly and showed us to our room on the fourth floor, the room is small but clean. We then headed out to get some food with a guy called Jason who we had been chatting to on the bus. We had many soft drinks and pizza. Jill and I then visited an internet cafe and booked some hotels for Vietnam and flights from Cambodia back to Thailand.
Vientiane Fountain
A Lizard On The Wall
We then took a walk along the river and saw that the Mekong festival is going on so had some bands playing live on stage.
Mekong Festival
We visited a Mexican restaurant and had some food and drinks before walking back through the city to the guest house. Vientiane is the capital of Laos and has a present population of 236,000 apparently it is one of the most sleepiest capitals in the world.
Had a free breakfast at the guesthouse then checked out and got a tuk tuk to the bus station. Arrived at the bus just after 9:30am, this is is 10am VIP Express bus to Vientiane. We boarded the bus and waited for it to leave and waited and waited, although it was full before 10am the driver thought he would sit around and chat to his colleagues before leaving. The bus finally left at a couple of minutes to 11. Then 200 hundred yards down the road it pulls into a petrol station and fills up. The bus was old with hardly any air-con no toilets on board and non stop til it gets to Vientiane. I have realised that in Laos the VIP service which is three times the cost of the normal bus means it has wheels and usual has petrol in it. I would love to know what the public buses are like. We eventually arrived in Vientiane just after 2pm after sitting on a bus for 4 ½ hours and travelled a total of 93 miles and these were not even windy mountain roads. We got a taxi to our guest house and checked into Mali Namphu guest house. The staff are very friendly and showed us to our room on the fourth floor, the room is small but clean. We then headed out to get some food with a guy called Jason who we had been chatting to on the bus. We had many soft drinks and pizza. Jill and I then visited an internet cafe and booked some hotels for Vietnam and flights from Cambodia back to Thailand.
Vientiane Fountain
A Lizard On The Wall
We then took a walk along the river and saw that the Mekong festival is going on so had some bands playing live on stage.
Mekong Festival
We visited a Mexican restaurant and had some food and drinks before walking back through the city to the guest house. Vientiane is the capital of Laos and has a present population of 236,000 apparently it is one of the most sleepiest capitals in the world.
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