Day: 427
Today ended up being pretty mellow, I had booked a bus ride on a VIP bus (like $1 more than the regular) to head north into the small town of Vang Vieng. They were picking me up from my hostel in Vientiene at 9:30 and the bus was supposed to leave at 10am and take 3 hours. Sounded like a sweet deal – a little too sweet after so much time in the third world.
Needless to say, I was picked up at my hostel 30minutes late, the bus didn’t leave until 10:40am, and we didn’t arrive until almost 3pm. I wasn’t excessively frustrated or anything, it is almost exactly what I expected to happen.
When I arrived in Vang Vieng, I found myself surrounded by guesthouses and bars which the front of which had open fronts and everyone of them was playing “Friends” and serving up Beer Lao, with dozens of backpackers sitting around stupefied by Ross and Rachel. I couldn’t quite figure it out, so I headed across the river to a smaller guesthouse owned by a friendly Brit who was just as disgusted by what has happened to what he recalls as a quiet little town just 8 years ago.
I did a bit of meandering around and I called Felicia for a while, but ultimately the sun began to set just after 5pm so I headed back and listened to the hostel owner sit around and rant about almost everything. He is one of those charmingly disgruntled sorts.
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Remarkable pics. Great selective vision. You’re cooking now, again.
Great Pictures Rob. It’s great to see your take on the “outback”.
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