So…Hello again!!…..It’s 9th of March 2009, day 46 of my adventures, and I was heading into northern Laos with Betty (from Holland) and Ruth & Amy (Monk Girls)….We crossed the Mekong river and got stamped into Laos. We had paid for a 2 day slow boat down the river to Luang Prabang. When we were wafting for the river, a representative of our tour (a local Laos chap) told us about how the 2 day boat ride would be long and uncomfortable and that the town we would have to stay in overnight would be expensive, unsafe and not very nice. He kindly told us that another option would be to get the 9hr VIP air-con bus on the newly constructed road. We weighed up the options and despite having to pay a bit more money,
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