From Sawasdee to Sabaydee
August 18th 2005 "Call me Fhan and we'll have a FUN time," that's what our Lao tour guide told us when he met us at the immigration checkpoint in Huay Xai.
It was also him who taught us what's "Hello" in Lao. It's Sabaydee (and it's said with a smile).
We completed visa formalities, changed baht to kips and took a tuk-tuk which took us to a port where a slow "tourist" boat (a house boat owned by
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