Green Park Boutique Vientiane

... riding our bikes home.

October 6th

Our last day in Vientiane and we had to get our Vientam visas. We dropped them off at the embassy (not far from the hotel) at 8am. It would cost 55USD each and would be ready by 1pm. Easy peasy. Walking back from the embassy my back was already starting to sting from the sun's rays so we went to hire the bikes again. We cycled down to the main square and had a massive breakfast (bread, eggs, pastries = very fat Amy and Tom ...

... anything, so we've been reading Lord of the Rings to each other lying in bed.

We leave tomorrow and head south, eventually heading East to Vietnam where we would like to find the coast. Its so hot!! I just want to swim!

Nothing else to say for this one...

... und papierduennen Waenden und oftmals ohne eigenes Badezimmer...Ganz anders als in Thailand, Kambodscha und Vietnam, wo man fuer 10$ ein anstaendiges bis sehr gutes Zimmer bekommt.

An unserem ersten Tag in Vientiane haben wir einen richtigen Tempelparcours hingelegt. Vom Wat Ong Teu Mahawihan und dem Wat Mixai zum Wat Hai Sok und dem Wat In Paeng. Nach einem kurzen Besuch im Schwimmbad und der Bowlinghalle sind wir dann ...

... that bad. The traffic noise via the ill-fitting windows gave us and early start and the breakfast, once we had finally shoehorned it out of them, felt like a poor little appetiser to a morning feast that never materialised.
One great thing about our visit to Vientiane was out first moped hire. It was great. The traffic does take a bit of time to get used to but in the main it was fun all the way. We nipped here and there, to the bank, to the main ...

... my better judgment, upon our arrival in Pakse, I really had had enough of the angry Israeli man when he started shouting and gesticulating wildly at a timid Lao girl at the travel agent in town. Never one to back away from a challenge, I stormed wildly into the office, rage burning in my belly, and told him in some kind of South London gangster tone that seemed to emerge from my lips that his behaviour simply “was ...

... auf einem Gummireifen den Fluss herunter treiben, jaa, natuerlich macht das bestimmt Spass, aber ich wollte das verkommen diese schoenen Ortes nun wirklich nicht unterstuetzen und ausserdem habe ich ja zum Glueck auf meiner Reise von dem lieben Heiko gelernt, dass es mir total egal ist, ob andere mich langweilig finden) verzichtet und bin meiner in Neuseeland entdeckten Lieblingssportart dem Rock Climbing nachgegangen. Und es war ein ...

... mural! Minus the boobs of course and had LED flashing lights all over it. The inside was luxury too! Almost like a boudoir, AND we got free food, rice and meat with water and sweeties for afters! Can't believe the shiniest bus we got was in Laos! So on our awesome bus we arrived into Vientiene at 7am, after getting a tuk tuk into town we checked into a very nice (if expensive compared to Don Det) guesthouse and went for some breakfast. We found that ...

... Jens did real good and scooped out the rest of the brain with the opposite end of a spoon and kept a great poker face as she swallowed.................We did it!! The rest of the evening was spent drinking ........and some bad dancing from our part ............ The locals are always very proud of their Laos songs........... every drinking session inevitabley turns into and thumping , drumming, banging Sing Song. "this is Laos Song!" they alway shout ...

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... lady boy winner........at this point coffee's were needed.







Finally we ended up at Patuxai, Lao's own 'Arc de Triomphe' replica which commemorates those in Laos who died in pre-revolutionary wars, and bizarrely was built with cement donated by the USA (to be used supposedly for construction of a new airport!!) It was very impressive to say the least and I sat watching locals ...