Well we arrived at nong khai at about 9.15am, went through thi immigration and took a bus across the friendship bridge to laos immigration. had to apply for our visas on the spot as its difficult to get a visa in advance for laos. Then caught a taxi with a lovely lady called sonya, who told us all about herself, she has a lot of history, living in vietnam and russia, speaking russian, thai,laos and english! We went to her house and met her daughter jenny, who was really cute. We headed off to vientiane, and after several tries, found a hotel which was nice. We wandered around in the mid-day heat which was stupid and found an ATM and internet place,met a german girl called danielle, who had lived in sydney for the last year
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