The following covers all of the time from leaving Chiang Kong in Thailandon the morning of 14th to leaving Luang Prabang on Monday morning 18th September (and a sad day that was). First, and continuing impressions of Laos is that it is fantastic. This morning we were out of the fabulous guest house and packed and ready to cross the river (and the border) into Laos, saying goodbye to Thailand. It was sad, and with much non-purchase regret (for the thai triangle pillows) we boarded some very skinny boats, packs and all and zoomed across the mekong. We were met there by our local guide Mr Kamfun (or fun for short). After all of the border formalities and money exchange we jumped into some jumbo's (see the description of seongteouws from before) and drove for about
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