I caught a bus from Luang Prabang to Vinh in Vietnam since I felt I was least likely to get ripped off but it turns out things would have been much easier if I'd caught the Hanoi bus since it was a direct bus, not a ticket deal involving bus changes. We left about an hour late and started the slow and windy road East. I actually think this road is worse than the ones further north, but it was a fancy expensive sleeper bus, only half full, and no-one was vomiting. You also get your very own bed which makes sleeping a little easier. We arrived at the Vietnamese border just before 6am and sat around for 2 hours waiting for it to open. When it finally did, it was the most epic border crossing
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