Riverside Towns of Laos
Monday, February 11th, 2008Andreas and I headed to the bus station early to try to get on a bus to Savannakhet. At the ticket window, we bought tickets for the next bus at 8:00 am. While we waited, we observed that there weren’t many people waiting to get on the bus. The bus employees must have noticed this as well and decided that the 8:00 am bus should become the 9:00 am bus and finally the 9:45 am bus before it left. We managed to get seats in the very front and were reveling in the leg room until a motorcyle was pushed right in front of us for transport. The long trip was pretty much like the rest I have taken. Small villages, big towns, and basically the bus stopping at everyone’s home along the way. At least we had karaoke videos to keep us entertained. The story lines in the videos all seemed to follow a similar pattern. [read on]
cjun