sorry we have been off the map for a while we have been busy; lurking in loas. after some poor planning, all tourist busses to laos were fully booked' thus we decided to get there ourselves and navigate the thai bus network. we ended up in many odd bus stations with many hours of waiting and significantly annoyed all laotions on the local bus by making them wait ages for us to get our visas! we finally arrived in Vientiane and checked ourselves in a hostel due to the promise of free vodka and breakfast. unfortunately we were put into a 16 bed dorm which was full of creeps, smelt like the unwashed and was choc a bloc with inconsiderate ingrates who loved nothing more than getting up at 6am and turning on ALL main lights; not the "reading light" as the hostel suggested.
vientiane was not our fave place as there was not a great deal to do and full of what we call, lurkers; as people tended to just sit. to fill our days however we hired bikes nd using our amazing skills learned during cycling proficiency navigated the crazy capital.
we went to an awful mall which was more like an inside hovel filled with lurkers. the night market was also disappointing as there were ugly clothes and nothing of cultural significance. an interesting find was the cope museum - about americas evil bombing of laos during the Vietnam war. there are still many of these uxos or bombys littered over laos which often blow up people and/or a limb off. cope gives these people false limbs. to cheer ourselvs up after the horrors we had witnessed/to contribute to new limbs for others we bought an ice cream, to share.
we went on one night out and at a nice rooftop bar made some laos friends who then took us to a night club. apart from a fat white man with his thai bride we were the only westerners in there so subjected to much staring as eacb laos person seemed to lurk around tables and didnt really dance.
our second night we drank our free vodka at our hostel and just sat and talked and lurked until we were told to end the meeting by the hostel owner.
notable food highlights included a lovely breakfast (eggs benedict and a real fry up), a nice curry and many pancakes which steph enjoys to drown in condensed milk.
next morning we were off early to vang vieng, yet were forgotten about by the tour company and again boarded a creepy local bus where we had awful seats - one next to the driver and one literally in the door of the bus!
laters lurkers
vientiane was not our fave place as there was not a great deal to do and full of what we call, lurkers; as people tended to just sit. to fill our days however we hired bikes nd using our amazing skills learned during cycling proficiency navigated the crazy capital.
we went to an awful mall which was more like an inside hovel filled with lurkers. the night market was also disappointing as there were ugly clothes and nothing of cultural significance. an interesting find was the cope museum - about americas evil bombing of laos during the Vietnam war. there are still many of these uxos or bombys littered over laos which often blow up people and/or a limb off. cope gives these people false limbs. to cheer ourselvs up after the horrors we had witnessed/to contribute to new limbs for others we bought an ice cream, to share.
we went on one night out and at a nice rooftop bar made some laos friends who then took us to a night club. apart from a fat white man with his thai bride we were the only westerners in there so subjected to much staring as eacb laos person seemed to lurk around tables and didnt really dance.
our second night we drank our free vodka at our hostel and just sat and talked and lurked until we were told to end the meeting by the hostel owner.
notable food highlights included a lovely breakfast (eggs benedict and a real fry up), a nice curry and many pancakes which steph enjoys to drown in condensed milk.
next morning we were off early to vang vieng, yet were forgotten about by the tour company and again boarded a creepy local bus where we had awful seats - one next to the driver and one literally in the door of the bus!
laters lurkers
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