Last night I caught the twelve hour bus from Bangkok through to Vientiane in Laos. To start the bus journey off, Lord of war came on. It had a great opening scene but then steadily faded. We met some english fellows on the bus who were a bunch of laughs, coming up with uncanny and unpredictable comments every few seconds. We arrived in Laos at 9am in the morning and we got our visas and passports checked at the border. I later learned that the bridge that we crossed over the Mekong river with was built by bloody aussies.....I was certain that it was going to collapse as our bus went over it. We managed to arrive safely although I smelt like a sweaty sack of dog faeces due to not showering for two days in thirty degree heat, whilst sweating buckets consistently. So far Laos seems like a great place. It is a lot more chilled than Bangkok which is refreshing. There are only so many times that you can tell a lady trying to sell you a wooden frog that "No, I really don't want a crappy wooden frog"........they stand there though and then push the frog closer towards you with a big cheesy grin! I swear that I would've snapped and berserked if I hadn't come to Laos when I have. Just to get an idea of just how chilled Laos is, here is what has happened so far....... I arrived and found a hostel for 5 us dollars for the night. It is a nice room with clean sheets. We then had some delicious food and then checked out some temples. In the space of a few hours however, I have been offered weed and "something else" a handful of times...........there's only one word to describe it.........."Chilled". The plan for the rest of the day is to take some pics and hire a motorbike to go for a geezer around the place on. It'll be a blast to get back on a bike again.
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