+ If you travel in south East Asia one day, please consider this: whatever they tell you (the guys who sell you the tickets), it is going to be something totally different!! If they promise "VIP bus", then you should expect regular one, if they tell you normal bus, then it will be a van. If they tell you 10hrs, then estimate around 15 hrs... If they says you will remain in one single bus all they way long, then you should expect to change buses around 3/4 times..... and so on. Sometimes you'll be dropped off in the middle of nowhere and you'll have to wait a few hours to be picked-up... The funny thing is that even if the journey is endless, when you stop to eat they just give you 10 minutes!!!! Legendary!
+ Our journey started in Hue, Vietnam with final destination Si Phan Don, Laos . It took two full days, first crossing the border in Lao Bao and making night stop in Savanahkket, Laos. This could be considered as more or less under normal circumstances. The second day was extraordinary. We made around 200 km in 6 hours in the oldest and crappiest bus ever. we bounced so much that our heads were hitting the ceiling. We carried three motorbikes and around 100 tons of goods, besides the approx 80 people in a bus designed for 20..
+ We include a couple of pictures when a bunch of women from the street enter the bus to sell us...well, everything... this include brochette of cockroaches and "bambooina" which looked like a shower head.
+ After the 6 hours of funny traveling we arrived in Pakse were we are supposed to take another bus (just 4 hours) which would take us to our a pier where we can catch a boat to bring us to our final destination. You know, we just wanted a comfortable bus, we weren't asking for air conditioning or large seat or any of those luxuries............ haha!!
This is what we got !!
+ We were more than 30 people in such tiny thing.... Every person was carrying about 100 kg of something: fans, fruits, boxes of clothes, fresh fish, we don't even know what was in those huge boxes which didn't allow us to stretch our legs ... Viva Laos !!!!!
+ But of course the good things come last.... at the end, we dropped some people and the journey turned very nicely... with beautiful landscapes... and we could finally stretch our legs!!
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