HEADING TO LAO BOARDER
As we had to leave China by the 03.03 we knew we have to head down to the boarder so the plan was to pick our visa today get ticket and cross the boarder.
Buying ticket was not that difficult, sleeper bus to Jinghong than change to Mengla, then to Laos easy peasy... You would have to see the sleeping bus, me and Reni knew we would get quite close on this trip, but never realised how close that would be until we had to sleep on this bus with other three Chinese people at the back. 10 hours on this bus was a killer but we have arrived at 6 am next day to Jinghong and than caught MINI bus to Mengla. When we say MINI bus we mean exactly mini bus, me Reni could not literally fit behind the seat I was given, so had to sit in middle squeezed between two Chinese men and breath in the smoke of one little old man who was smoking like there was no tomorrow. 4-5 hours later we have arrived in Mengha where as soon as we got off the "bus" got hustled by taxi drivers and people being to helpful and as I Romi was shattered and not in a mood I had to tell them only once to leave us alone. And the phrase: "could you please leave us alone" was enough.
MENGLA
Beautiful little town, and for the first time we could go out in T-shirts it was 27 Celsius... finally some sun.. lovely.. This little town has 3 lines of public bus as we have found out when we were trying to find the bus station from which we had to catch bus to Luan Nam Tha. We were on all 3 lines and saw the town and found the bus stop, eventually, it was the same bus stop that we have got off this morning... never mind... bought a tickets and saw the town.
SMEROVANI K LAOSKYM HRANICIM
Vedely jsme, ze musime opustit Cinu do 03.03. a proto jsme musely smerovat k hranicim, takze plan bylo vyzvednout visa, koupit listek a co nejdrive prejit hranice.
Koupe listu byla bez problemu, spaci autobus do Jinghong, prestup do Mengla a pak Laos, to se zvladne levou zadni.. To by jste ale meli videt spici autobusy. Vedely jsme, ze se pri cestovani zblizime, ale nikdy nas nenapadlo jak moc blizci si budeme akor jeste z dalsimi tremi cinany v zadu autobusu. 10 hodin v autobuse byla vrazda motorovou pilou. Prijely jsem rano v 6 do Jinghong a jely jsme prvnim MINI busem do Mengla, a kdyz se rekne MINI tak je to i mysleno. Ja Renca jsem se z nohama nevlezla do sveho mista a musela jsem sedet v zadu, uprostred mezi dvouma primacknutyma cinanama a vdechovat kour jednoho stareho deduli, ktery kouril jak ucpana kamna. 4-5 hodin pozdeji jsme dorazily do Mengla a jako obvykle nas zacali otravovat taxikari a jinak pomocni lidi. A protoze Ja Romca jsme byla skoro mrtva tak jim to stacilo rici pouze jednou, aby nas nechali napokoji.
MENGLA
Moc pekne mestecko a poprve jsme mohly ven jen v trickach, bylo 27 stupnu - nadhera... konecne Oskar vylezl. Toto male mestecko ma tri linky autobusu, no a my jsem jely ze vsemy, snazily jsme se najit autobusak na kterem nam prodaji lisky do Luang Nam Tha ( Laos). Nakonec jsme ho nasly, byl to ten samy na kterym jsme vystupovaly rano.. na okolo blize... koupily jsme listek a jeste vydely cele mestecko z autobusu.
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