The only thing on today’s agenda was to
book our bus to Thailand. When we went asking the other day we discovered most
buses were in the evening but found one place that did a day bus so we went on
the hunt to refind that shop. We were unsuccessful, well we are pretty sure we
went in the right shop and they said evening so we think we were given duff
information the other day, which isn’t surprising! So we had two options, do we
leave today or tomorrow? As you already know from the title we went with today.
We grabbed a quick lunch and went back to our hostel. I was all ready to haggle
our way out of paying for a whole night because we were checking out now instead
of tomorrow but the guy didn’t seem fussed and checked the book and said ‘2
nights?!’ I said yes and that was it. We only paid for 2 even though we didn’t
check out until 2pm… sweet deals!
We were originally told we were going
to be picked up at 6pm and then someone turned up and said it would be 5.
Either way we were staying in the hostel until our pick up so it made no
difference. 6.15pm and still no one has turned up… we got someone to ring them
and eventually someone appeared. They didn’t seem happy we were late but it
wasn’t exactly our fault! I already feel like this journey is going to be
terrible…
There were only about 10 people on this
bus but we knew from previous experience it would stop a million times, pick up
and drop off random people (probably family/friends) and just take forever to
get anywhere. We were handed a snack, which was a surprise and it was alright.
Chrissy and I watched a few random things on my laptop and then decided to try
and get some sleep about 11pm, so I moved a few seats so we had two each. This
journey was suppose to take 12 hours, it took 18. Some guy decided to sleep on
the floor behind my seat (I was at the back) and open the windows and generally
just be rude and annoying (he was the man who was angry at the station too). I
couldn’t find a good way to sleep and overall I was just very happy it was our
last bus and we were finally leaving Laos!
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