I took the SinhTourist bus to Savannakhet from Hue. Crossing into Laos from Vietnam at the Lao Bao crossing was reasonably quick given the need to get stamped out, sort out a visa on arrival to Laos and then go through passport control on the Laos side. It was the last of these that took the longest. I've seldom seen such a disorderly queue as the one at the window to get stamped into Laos, a whole lot of people pushing and slipping their passports through the gap! But, the bus waited for us all to get stamped in and we were back on our way. Shortly after going through the border, we stopped at a roadside restaurant which, as well as all the usual things that these places sell, had shelves of big glass jars
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