One Big Adventure

After writing off the first day, we decided that hiring a scooter to explore some of the city would be a good idea. Although after getting slightly lost, then being pulled over by the police for going down a one way street the wrong way (luckily I used my Cann charm and blagged myself out of another fine… 2nd time now!) we decided that maybe it was an omen to walk.

We suddenly had the realisation that we only had another 20 days to fit in Vietnam and Cambodia so had to hot foot it towards the border. During our next 8 hour day bus (leaving night ones alone for a while) we were cruising along the road when all of a sudden the back tyre blew. It may not of been so bad if it did not rip the floor of the bus open like a tin of sardines spraying dust and rubber into the air. All of the passengers were off their feet in seconds cowering to other side of the bus. SCARY!! The crazy thing is once they had bent the metal back into place, put on the spare tyre and swept up we were all ushered back onto the bus for remaining 3 hours (only in Asia!).

Chloe Writes: Vientiane is another of Laos laid back cities, just like the rest of the country really. Day 2 (we spent the first one asleep), was spent on the back of a scooter, sightseeing. We went to Buddha park, where on the grassy banks of the Mekong river, giant stone statues of Buddhas and Hindu gods stare down at you with the most bizarre expressions.