So, anyway, we left Thailand at the Chaing Khong/Xieng Kok border with Lao. The journey to the border was pretty easy on one of the local busses that travels between the town and Chaing Rai and a tuk tuk to the mighty Mekong River which divides Thailand from Lao. The Thai border at Chiang Khong was a little sleepy kind of a place, there was a man asleep in a hamock, oh with a gun, and the imigration man tried to sell us an over-priced visa from a local cafe, but we luckily knew that visas are available on arrival in Laos so we desisted and got on a little boat across the river. A grueling 4 minutes and 200m later we arrived in Laos, home of the world's most friendly and welcoming immigration people. Ok
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