Luang nam tha
Trip Start
Nov 01, 2005
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Trip End
Nov 01, 2006
Luang nam tha,
Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Luang nam tha
Laos is really rainy at the moment, it's the rainy season don't you know.
The charge tourest more for everything system is alive and well in Laos which makes some things significantly more expensive than in China.
Food and drink around double and internet up to 10 times the price.
Accomodation seems fine, back to guest houses after hostels being more the norm in China.
This is a quiet little town.
Unfortunately I hurt my knee which is making walking less fun.
I met two guys with a hairball scheme to build a raft and head down river,
so I watched them building their raft, of course they ended up getting the bus.
I walked up the nearby hill over the town.
These were recently stripped of their forest cover, stumps and trunks still everywhere, and planted for agriculture.
Well not too much to do other than get really wet.
posted by conor at 10:01 PM 0 comments
Bus to Laos
So another long bus journey,
this time it's a sleeper bus,
two level bunks kind of comfey.
18 hours later, the next day, without much sleep, we arrive in Mengla near enough to the border with laos.
Get a bus to the border town, getting on 23 hours of traveling.
Check out of China and start walking to the Laos side,
spooky, not many people crossing at all, good thing I met up with a Finish couple on the bus. About 3km after the border there is a place to buy your visa and stamp it.
Laos is really a big change from China. China has loads of people, Laos not many at all. The border town consists of a restaurant and a bus station, which is a tiny open shed in a waterlogged field and guys playing cards waiting for enough people to arrive to fill a bus.
Waited a got a bus to Luang nam tha about an hour or two away.
