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Published: July 29th 2005
Well two days and 1000 kms of bus and train later, and I'm sitting here in Chiang Khong on the Mekong River right up in the Golden Triangle. Laos is literally 100m away from our guesthouse (or however wide the river is) and we'll be heading there at 8:30 tomorrow morning. I found out about a place in Vang Vieng (about 100 or so k's north of Vientiane) that does WWOOFing, and I might look into doing that for a week or so! I've decided that the ONLY way to travel is to stay somewhere for more than just a few days (more than a week too, but you can only get 15 days in Laos, so I wanna see a bit more of it). The actual TRAVELLING part of travelling sucks! I've taken to lying in the aisles of teeth-rattling buses using my ukulele case as a pillow (rather effective!) as the only way to try and block it out. BEING somewhere is much nicer than the whole getting there bit, although we are about to embark on a slow 2-day river cruise down the Mekong, which should be quite a bit nicer than any bus! So from Thailand, it's
View over the Mekong River
We can see Laos from our verandah. This is literally looking out from out guesthouse.so long for now- I'll try and find some facilities in Laos to update sometime in the next week, but I've heard that they are few and far between. Seeya Later!
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Norn
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Great photos Charlie. Like the Tshirt snap. Good luck in Laos. Sounds like you'll be on the move a bit. Pop Art and I are well. Thinking of you every day. keep taking care. Nornie