One thing we figured out early on about Laos is that it’s not the easiest country to get around. There is no train network and the majority of travel is by bus or boat. We opted for the two day boat option which would take us up the Mekong River to the Laos-Thai border. In hindsight, this was probably the least efficient way to return to Bangkok but we had fun nonetheless.
Weirdly, a cold spell had hit this area of the world since our kayaking adventure; locals were feeling it more than us, but without my one and only long sleeved top (it never returned from the laundry) I was forced to sit in my sleeping bag for the two day journey! Feeling left out, Chris joined me and we looked rather like two homeless people!
We met some other travellers on the boat, including Canadians Tia and Jordan who were celebrating Tia’s birthday and who we went out for dinner with on our second evening. This kind of thing made our two day journey worth it.
When we finally reached the border on the evening of day two, we were forced to wait yet another night because the boat never reaches the town in time for the immigration closing. Of course this means that tourists are forced to stay in the border town for an evening and spend money. Clever.
We eventually crossed the border and then had to wait until the late afternoon for our night bus to Bangkok – by this stage we definitely knew we should have taken a different route! This had taken over three days now!
We were nonetheless excited to meet up with Adam, our good friend and neighbour from Paris, who was going to be spending the next three weeks with us adventuring in Thailand.
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