Vientiane
Trip Start
Oct 10, 2007
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14
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Trip End
May 31, 2008
Vientiane, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Saturday, March 1, 2008
While walking to a coffeshop I ran into Ben, a dreddie from Belgium whom I befriended while staying in the refuge. Most definately not a coincidence. He took my bike for a spin and could not resist getting a bike for himself and joining in on the expedition. His bike was a much newer version of mine and had an extra gear that I kept trying to find on mine.
After realizing we were heading the wrong way for about 30kms, we got on track and made some good time to the first stop, a small guesthouse, and the only guesthouse for a long stretch. This is where I wish I would have taken the time to journel. The name of the town is now lost to me but, basically it was up around a tip of Thailand before headeing south again.
While looking for food, which almost always consisted of a meat based soup with noodles and bean sprouts with the option to add all sorts of freah veggies and herbs, we where invited into a salon/ house where some locals were dancing and drinking. Turns out it was the head police officer who was lit and kept trying to hook me up with these two local girls and was quite relentless. All innocent and turned in after setting up the mosquito net and pulliong the bike into the room.
Made a goal to head towards the Vietnam border for a cave and hot springs. More stories to come.
Comments
Very nice!
Is that really you in your profile photo? Hope you have lots of fun on the rest of your trip and I'm sorry to hear that you got off track so far! That sucks!
Louise Brown
TravelPod Community Manager