2nd Feb ’12 Phonsavan to Vang Vieng We left a gloomy cloudy Phonsavan in a minibus that this time did have head rests but was tiny and packed full. We followed the less windy road that we travelled in on until which reached the town with a roundabout (whose name escapes me) where we turned left for the Vang Viang road. By now the sun was out and we started the twists and turns up into the dramatic mountains. Considering this is the main road between the cities it was even worse than the one we drove in on from LP. It is just a single carriageway and is full of pot holes, loose crumbling stone and lorries and buses come hurtling around the bends. Surprisingly we only saw one near miss, when a car tried
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